#0751 · 🐦 birds

Whiskered Tern

🇳🇱 Witwangstern ·Chlidonias hybrida

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Daniel Eugenio Pérez Garrido · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Agustín Povedano · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Íker Sánchez · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Андрей Москвичев · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Sam Gordon · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © tjeerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Gabi Rusu · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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 ; Pallas thought it might be a hybrid of white-winged black tern and common tern, writing " Sterna fissipes et Hirundine natam ”.

base stats

NL sightings 57iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 19,826iNaturalist observations
weight 90 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).