
Hydroprogne caspia
West Coast National Park and Table Mountain National Park are the two atlas places where the Caspian Tern is recorded. Its records concentrate in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Australia, and Mexico. The atlas holds about 1.1 million records of the bird across 17 countries, and the map highlights where these records gather.
Because this bird is recorded in both the northern and southern hemispheres, the seasons for sightings differ by region. Each place page shows the months where it has been recorded in that area.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Caspian Tern as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.