What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Caspian Tern been recorded?

Hydroprogne caspia occurrence evidence comes from 194,718 records in 50 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Caspian Tern
Caspian Tern — Photo (display-sized rendition): Mdf · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCharadriiformesLaridaeHydroprogne

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

194,718 records across 50 countries and territories, 1790–2026.

Hydroprogne caspia · GBIF taxon key 2481236

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: July.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

17902026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Caspian Tern has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Caspian Tern. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 188,661
United States 4,317
Belgium 565
Canada 211
Spain 171
Austria 149
Australia 130
Colombia 119
New Zealand 76
Mexico 57
South Africa 30
Germany 28
Ukraine 27
Senegal 25
Taiwan 23
Mongolia 14
Russia 13
Denmark 10
France 10
India 8
Italy 7
South Korea 7
Finland 6
Jordan 6
Egypt 4
Namibia 4
Thailand 4
Estonia 3
Western Sahara 3
Iran 3
Mauritania 3
Oman 3
United Kingdom 2
Gambia 2
Israel 2
Angola 1
Åland Islands 1
China 1
Costa Rica 1
Greece 1

Showing the top 40 of 50 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.