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title: "Gaivina-de-faces-brancas"
description: "Chlidonias hybrida — Aves. The whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) is a tern in the family Laridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/whiskered-tern
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gaivina-de-faces-brancas

> Chlidonias hybrida — Aves. The whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) is a  tern in the family Laridae.

- Scientific name: *Chlidonias hybrida*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Lagos e rios)
- iNaturalist observations: 19282
- Wikidata: [Q233616](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233616)
- iNaturalist taxon: [62148](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62148)

## Names

- en: Whiskered Tern
- de: Weißbart-Seeschwalbe
- es: Fumarel Cariblanco
- fr: Guifette moustac
- it: Chlidonias hybridus
- nl: Witwangstern
- pt: Gaivina-de-faces-brancas
- pl: Rybitwa białowąsa

## Countries with the most observations

IN (1903), AU (1396), TW (1371), RU (1197), ES (1135), TH (983), FR (682), CN (665), ZA (658), ID (476), RO (432), PH (403)

## Summary

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".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskered_tern

## Photo

![Gaivina-de-faces-brancas](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/whiskered-tern/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tero Linjama · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124245245

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/whiskered-tern?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).