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Chlidonias hybrida · Family Laridae
Chlidonias hybrida
Family Laridae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 647,816
- Countries and territories with records
- 159
About this species
This species has 647,816 occurrence records from 159 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (19.9%), India (16.3%), Taiwan (13.7%), Spain (8.5%) and South Africa (5.5%); together they account for 63.9% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Chlidonias hybrida combines the genus name Chlidonias with the species epithet hybrida. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Chlidonias; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Chlidonias niger, Chlidonias leucopterus and Chlidonias albostriatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 101 species of the family Laridae. This species ranks 27th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Larus delawarensis. Its record count is 74.1% of the family average (874,525). The family Laridae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.