Ireland
What is recorded in Ireland
- Species
- 1,412
- Grid cells
- 6,700
- Records
- 763,792
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 1,090
- Bony fish 134
- Birds 106
- Sharks and rays 41
- Mammals 31
- Chimaeras 7
- Reptiles 2
- Amphibians 1
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Ireland, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in Ireland, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornix
Herring Gull
Larus argentatus
Rook
Corvus frugilegus
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Western Jackdaw
Coloeus monedula
Eurasian Magpie
Pica pica
Common Wood Pigeon
Columba palumbus
European Robin
Erithacus rubecula
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Haematopus ostralegus
Eurasian Curlew
Numenius arquata
Common Redshank
Tringa totanus
Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytes
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Ireland.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Ireland on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.