Where can you see the Inca Tern?
Some of the best places to see the Inca Tern in the wild include Parque Nacional de Galápagos (Ecuador), Corcovado National Park (Costa Rica) and Coiba National Park (Panama) — among 6 wildlife hotspots across Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Chile. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Coiba National Park
Montijo, Panama
+260 birds+10 mammals
An archipelago of volcanic and sedimentary islands rises from the Pacific waters off Panama's southwestern coast, its densest rainforest canopy unbroken for millennia. Coiba National Park…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKCorcovado National Park
Puerto Jiménez, Costa Rica
+444 birds+48 mammals
Where the Osa Peninsula juts into the Pacific, rainforest descends almost to the tide line, and Corcovado National Park protects one of Central America's most intact…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKManuel Antonio National Park
Quepos, Costa Rica
+426 birds+22 mammals
Where tropical rainforest descends steeply to a rocky Pacific coastline, Manuel Antonio National Park distills Central American biodiversity into one of Costa Rica's most compressed and…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMarino Golfo de Chiriquí National Park
Boca Chica, Panama
+82 birds+2 mammals
Where mangrove forests meet tropical Pacific waters, Marino Golfo de Chiriquí National Park spans 463 square kilometers of one of Central America's most biodiverse coastal systems.…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKPan de Azúcar National Park
Chañaral, Chile
+74 birds+4 mammals
Where the Atacama Desert plunges toward the Pacific, Pan de Azúcar National Park sprawls across 727 square kilometres of one of Earth's most extreme transitions—a landscape…
VIEW NATIONAL PARKParque Nacional de Galápagos
Santo Tomás, Ecuador
+139 birds+23 mammals
Volcanic peaks and weathered lava fields dominate this remote archipelago in the Pacific, where the interplay of cold ocean currents and tropical latitude creates an ecological…
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