Species Detail - White-winged Black Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "eBIRD Bird Records for Ireland".

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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Chlidonias leucopterus
White-winged Black Tern
NBNSYS0000000373 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
chleu
(Temminck, 1815)
Bird
Species
45
12
11
30/08/1983
25/05/2024
2 May (recorded in 1962)
18 November (recorded in 2002)
eBIRD, eBIRD Bird Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, White-winged Black Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus), accessed 19 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/435/Species/10182

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)