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Little Saltee Island

Island & Archipelago · Ireland

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ABOUT

Windswept and spare, Little Saltee rises from the Celtic Sea off Ireland's southeastern coast, a rocky island where Atlantic swells have sculpted stone into cathedral-like formations and where the temperate oceanic climate sustains year-round moisture and persistent cloud cover. The terrain is low and rugged, dominated by coastal grassland and maritime heath, with sparse shrubland clinging to exposed slopes where salt spray and gales have pruned growth to the minimal. This temperate maritime habitat, with its reliable rainfall and cool growing season, supports a floristically rich sward and a complex web of invertebrates—beetles, flies, and spiders—that form the foundation of the island's food chains. Seabirds dominate the fauna: cliff-nesting auks and cormorants exploit the rocky shoreline, while gulls patrol the margins between sea and turf, and migratory waders and seabirds use the island as a waystation during their journeys across the Atlantic flyway. Smaller breeding colonies of terns and petrels, along with occasional visiting raptors drawn by concentrations of prey, complete a roster of avian specialists perfectly adapted to this remote, maritime realm.

WILDLIFE

Type

Atlantic Puffin

Fratercula arctica

Northern Gannet

Red-billed Chough

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus

Great Cormorant

Phalacrocorax carbo

Common Shelduck

Tadorna tadorna

Common Pheasant

Phasianus colchicus

Baillon's Crake

Zapornia pusilla

Eurasian Oystercatcher

Haematopus ostralegus

Ruddy Turnstone

Arenaria interpres

Thalasseus sandvicensis

Black-legged Kittiwake

Rissa tridactyla

European Herring Gull

Larus argentatus

Great Black-backed Gull

Black Guillemot

Northern Fulmar

Fulmarus glacialis

Gulosus aristotelis

Hirundo rustica

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

Troglodytes troglodytes

Common Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

Common Blackbird

European Stonechat

Saxicola rubicola

Northern Wheatear

Oenanthe oenanthe

Prunella modularis

Anthus pratensis

European Rock Pipit

Anthus petrosus

Linaria cannabina

Branta bernicla

Branta leucopsis

Mareca strepera

Anas platyrhynchos

Somateria mollissima

Melanitta nigra

Common Merganser

Mergus merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Mergus serrator

Cuculus canorus

Common Wood Pigeon

Columba palumbus

European Turtle Dove

Streptopelia turtur

Eurasian Collared Dove

Streptopelia decaocto

Rallus aquaticus

Great Crested Grebe

Podiceps cristatus

Pluvialis squatarola

European Golden Plover

Pluvialis apricaria

Common Ringed Plover

Charadrius hiaticula

Northern Lapwing

Vanellus vanellus

Eurasian Whimbrel

Numenius phaeopus

Eurasian Curlew

Numenius arquata

Black-tailed Godwit

Eurasian Woodcock

Scolopax rusticola

Gallinago gallinago

Common Sandpiper

Actitis hypoleucos

Common Redshank

Common Greenshank

Tringa nebularia

Calidris alpina

Sternula albifrons

Chlidonias niger

Sterna paradisaea

Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Mediterranean Gull

Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Parasitic Jaeger

Stercorarius parasiticus

Pomarine Jaeger

Stercorarius pomarinus

Stercorarius skua

Red-throated Loon

European Storm Petrel

Hydrobates pelagicus

Manx Shearwater

Puffinus puffinus

Egretta garzetta

Pandion haliaetus

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Accipiter nisus

Western Marsh Harrier

Circus aeruginosus

Short-eared Owl

Common Kingfisher

Falco tinnunculus

Falco columbarius

Woodchat Shrike

Red-backed Shrike

Lanius collurio

Eurasian Magpie

Western Jackdaw

Coloeus monedula

Corvus frugilegus

Eurasian Blue Tit

Cyanistes caeruleus

Eurasian Skylark

Alauda arvensis

Riparia riparia

Western House Martin

Delichon urbicum

Phylloscopus trochilus

Common Chiffchaff

Phylloscopus collybita

Common Reed Warbler

Acrocephalus scirpaceus

Common Grasshopper Warbler

Locustella naevia

Eurasian Blackcap

Sylvia atricapilla

Common Whitethroat

Curruca communis

Common Firecrest

Regulus ignicapilla

Regulus regulus

Turdus philomelos

Turdus viscivorus

Spotted Flycatcher

Muscicapa striata

Erithacus rubecula

European Pied Flycatcher

Ficedula hypoleuca

Phoenicurus ochruros

Common Redstart

Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Saxicola rubetra

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Passer montanus

Passer domesticus

Eurasian Chaffinch

Fringilla coelebs

Eurasian Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

European Greenfinch

Chloris chloris

Acanthis flammea

European Goldfinch

Carduelis carduelis

Serinus serinus

Eurasian Siskin

Lapland Longspur

Calcarius lapponicus

Emberiza citrinella

Ortolan Bunting

Emberiza hortulana

Common Reed Bunting

Emberiza schoeniclus

Greater White-fronted Goose

Anser albifrons

Northern Shoveler

Spatula clypeata

Eurasian Wigeon

Mareca penelope

Northern Pintail

European Rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Halichoerus grypus

Rattus norvegicus

Eurasian Pygmy Shrew

Risso's Dolphin

Grampus griseus

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COMMUNITY

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Natural environment

Little Saltee Island

Generally mild conditions, with noticeable seasonal changes.

Usual climateHumid temperate with mild summersLowland

Average annual temperature 11.0 °C Average of the twelve monthly means

Average elevation 0 m Lowland

Climate pattern Humid temperate with mild summers Main environment around this hotspot

A year of temperatures

Monthly means, with the coldest and warmest highlighted

Monthly minimum · February 7.2 °C Monthly maximum · August 15.5 °C

Global temperature scale

−40°−20°0°20°40°

Terrain and elevation

0 m · Lowland

Average terrain elevation estimate across the hotspot; the figure does not represent its highest summits.

Elevation scale

0 m

02,0004,0006,0008,000m

Lowland

Long-term climate averages, not live weather.

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