| Atlas pied flycatcher | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Ficedula |
| Species: | F. speculigera |
| 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]
