Royal Tern
Thalasseus maximus
Monteverde and Arenal are the two atlas regions where the Royal Tern is recorded, with records concentrating in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Belize. The atlas holds about 958,000 open records of this bird from 12 countries. Because its map tracks where these records gather, it represents a partial view of the total range.
Records of Thalasseus maximus span the entire year, occurring in every month.
- Records
- 958,030
- Countries
- 12
- Atlas places
- 2
Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Royal 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.
- Very likelyUnited States25 km zone · high confidence · 892350 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyMexico25 km zone · high confidence · 13969 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyPuerto Rico25 km zone · high confidence · 11942 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyCosta Rica25 km zone · high confidence · 11575 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBelize25 km zone · high confidence · 6946 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyCuba25 km zone · high confidence · 5826 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyColombia25 km zone · high confidence · 4641 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyCayman Islands25 km zone · high confidence · 3508 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyAruba25 km zone · high confidence · 2555 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyPanama25 km zone · high confidence · 1678 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
