Species Detail - Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Gavia arctica
Black-throated Diver
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gaarc
(Linnaeus, 1758)
bird
Species
19
7
12
06/04/1981
05/03/1999
4 January (recorded in 2021)
30 December (recorded in 2005)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/10110>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)