Whiskered Tern
Chlidonias hybrida
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 10,867
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇳 India
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khelidonios, "swallow-like", from khelidon, "swallow". The specific hybridus is Latin for hybrid; Peter Simon Pallas thought it might be a hybrid of white-winged black tern and common tern, writing "Sterna fissipes [Chlidonias leucopterus] et Hirundine [Sterna hirundo] natam".
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Whiskered tern”.