Thalasseus bergii
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around West Coast National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
Records exist for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, March, April, July, August, September, October and November. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 3 squares of 25 km carry records for Greater Crested Tern in and around West Coast National Park, and the 14,667 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
Table Mountain National Park, Namib-Naukluft and Dorob National Park are among eight atlas places where the Greater Crested Tern is recorded. Its records concentrate in Australia, South Africa, Taiwan, India and Namibia, and the atlas map shows these areas of focus. There are about 269,000 open records for this bird from 15 countries.
Of the 69 species with an atlas page recorded in and around West Coast National Park, the Greater Crested Tern is the 2nd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded