Spring Azure
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 107,313
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- Ards and North Down
Species recorded in Ards and North Down
299 species
Ards and North Down — county
Painted Lady
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 105,523
European Shag
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 104,847
Common Goldeneye
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 103,697
Black-legged Kittiwake
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 94,955
Rock Pipit
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 90,101
Sandwich Tern
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 88,504
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 88,448
Brant
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 87,250
Common Eider
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 86,739
Common Greenshank
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 77,228
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 68,995
Razorbill
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 66,509
Bar-tailed Godwit
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 65,771
Red-throated Loon
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 61,757
Red-breasted Merganser
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- January
- Records since 2000
- 59,855
Whimbrel
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 58,553
Hooded Crow
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 56,265
Red Knot
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 53,928
Common Nettle
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 53,331
Whooper Swan
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- October
- Records since 2000
- 45,803
Hawthorn
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 44,514
Common Feather-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 44,396
Cypress-leaved Plait-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 41,845
Rough-stalked Feather-moss
- Group
- Mosses
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 41,342
White-tailed Bumble Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 40,355
Ribwort Plantain
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 39,026
Hogweed
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 38,903
Early Bumble Bee
- Group
- Bees, wasps and ants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 38,075
Edible Crab
- Group
- Crustaceans
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 36,315
Creeping Buttercup
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 35,825
Ash
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 35,025
Tapered Drone Fly
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 35,005
Sycamore [tree]
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 34,632
Dangling Swamp-lover
- Group
- True flies
- Peak month
- September
- Records since 2000
- 34,301
Arctic Tern
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 33,992
Common frog
- Group
- Amphibians
- Peak month
- March
- Records since 2000
- 33,381
Common Starfish
- Group
- Starfish and sea urchins
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 33,273
Holly
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 32,893
Large Yellow Underwing
- Group
- Butterflies and moths
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 31,787
Herb-Robert
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 31,116
English ivy, Common ivy, European ivy, Ivy, Needlepoint ivy, Ripple ivy
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- April
- Records since 2000
- 30,860
Manx Shearwater
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- August
- Records since 2000
- 30,622
Japanese Knotweed
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 30,167
European otter
- Group
- Mammals
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 28,426
Elder
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- June
- Records since 2000
- 28,375
Black Guillemot
- Group
- Birds
- Peak month
- May
- Records since 2000
- 27,934
Common Ragwort
- Group
- Flowering plants
- Peak month
- July
- Records since 2000
- 27,539