Species Detail - Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) - 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).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Ardea purpurea
Purple Heron
NHMSYS0000530173 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
arpur
Linnaeus, 1766
Bird
Species
41
13
9
11/06/1981
20/04/2024
19 March (recorded in 1990)
30 October (recorded in 1996)
eBIRD, eBIRD Bird Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea), accessed 19 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/435/Species/11143

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)