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Atlas pied flycatcher
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Ficedula
Species:	F. speculigera
Binomial name
Ficedula speculigera (Bonaparte, 1850)
Synonyms
Muscicapa speculifera Bonaparte, 1850 Ficedula hypoleuca speculigera (Bonaparte, 1850)

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.

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. The bird has large white patches on its wing and forehead. Identification is also covered in Etherington and Small (2003) and van den Berg et al. (2006).

References

1. Bonaparte, Carolus Lucianus (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium. Vol. 1. Lugdunum Batavorum: E. J. Brill. p. 317.
2. ^ "Atlas Flycatcher - eBird". ebird.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
3. Sætre, Glenn-Peter; Borge, Thomas; Moum, Truls (2001). "A new bird species? The taxonomic status of 'the Atlas Flycatcher' assessed from DNA sequence analysis". Ibis. 143 (4): 494–497. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2001.tb04951.x.
4. Etherington, Graham; Small, Brian (2003). "Taxonomy and identification of Atlas Flycatcher – a potential British vagrant". Birding World. 16: 252–256.
5. van den Berg, Arnoud; The Sound Approach (2006). "Phenology and identification of Atlas and Iberian Pied Flycatchers" (PDF). Dutch Birding. 28 (1): 1–6.

External links

• "Ficedula speculigera". Avibase.

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