Species Detail - Little Tern (Sternula albifrons) - 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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Sternula albifrons
Little Tern
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stalb
(Pallas, 1764)
bird
Species
2
2
2
06/09/1988
23/09/1997
17 April (recorded in 2018)
13 October (recorded in 2019)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Little Tern (Sternula albifrons), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/12116>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)