Species Detail - Night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "eBIRD Bird Records for Ireland".
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50km
Marine Map - 50km
Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Nycticorax nycticorax
Night-heron
NHMSYS0000530505
RecommendedWell-formed
Black-crowned Night Heron , Night Heron , Nycticorax gardeni (Dickenson), Nycticorax griseus (Linnaeus), Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus)
N/A
nynyc
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Bird
Species
58
19
16
16/08/1983
10/06/2024
3 March (recorded in 2006)
31 December (recorded in 1888)
eBIRD, eBIRD Bird Records for Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), accessed 19 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/435/Species/11468