Species Detail - Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Sterna paradisaea
Arctic Tern
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stpar
Pontoppidan, 1763
bird
Species
328
80
146
10/04/1980
20/07/2008
8 March (recorded in 2015)
5 December (recorded in 2017)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/10175>