Species Detail - Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) - 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).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Ardenna gravis
Great Shearwater
NHMSYS0021273561 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
N/A
(O'Reilly, 1818)
Bird
Species
1225
70
266
21/07/1980
26/07/2008
12 January (recorded in 1996)
20 November (recorded in 1989)
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) bird sightings 1980-2023, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis), accessed 13 June 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/408/Species/305547>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)