Common Tern

Namib-Naukluft, West Coast National Park and Dorob National Park are three atlas places where the Common Tern is recorded. Records concentrate most heavily in the United States, Canada, Finland, the United Kingdom and Norway. The atlas holds about 836,000 records of this bird from 21 countries, and the map reflects where these observations cluster.

Because the species is recorded in both the northern and southern hemispheres, the months it is most active differ by region. Each place page in the atlas shows the recorded timing for that area.