Atlas pied flycatcher | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Ficedula |
Species: | F. speculigera
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Binomial name | |
Ficedula speculigera (Bonaparte, 1850)
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The Atlas pied flycatcher or Atlas flycatcher (Ficedula speculigera) is a bird in an Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers; it is endemic as a breeding species to North-west Africa.[2]
It was formerly regarded as a race of European pied flycatcher, but Sætre et al. (2001) recommended that it is regarded as a species in its own right.[3] The bird has large white patches on its wing and forehead.[2] Identification is also covered in Etherington and Small (2003)[4] and van den Berg et al. (2006).[5]