Species Detail - Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) - 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
Merops apiaster
Bee-eater
NHMSYS0000530476 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
meapi
Linnaeus, 1758
Bird
Species
4
4
4
30/09/1985
04/06/2005
19 April (recorded in 2014)
2 November (recorded in 1892)
eBIRD, eBIRD Bird Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Bee-eater (Merops apiaster), accessed 19 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/435/Species/11439

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)