Atlas pied flycatcher
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Atlas pied flycatcher
| image = Atlas Flycatcher (Ficedula speculigera).jpg
| genus = Ficedula
| species = speculigera
| authority = (Bonaparte, 1850)
| synonyms ={{specieslist
|Muscicapa speculifera|Bonaparte, 1850
|Ficedula hypoleuca speculigera|(Bonaparte, 1850)}}
}}
File:Ficedula speculigera MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.206.4.jpg]]
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.{{Cite web|url=https://ebird.org/species/atlfly1|title=Atlas Flycatcher - eBird|website=ebird.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-07}}
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
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Corso, A., Janni, O., Viganò, M. & Starnini, L. 2015. Atlas Pied Flycatcher: variability of identification characters. Dutch Birding 37: 141-160
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280622466_Atlas_Pied_Flycatcher_variability_of_identification_characters?_iepl%5BgeneralViewId%5D=68hqkmr4zZI5nmINhqs0016WRW0FQ0z0I9Kb&_iepl%5Bcontexts%5D%5B0%5D=searchReact&_iepl%5BviewId%5D=Kich1TLc7GoFN9y022nwQLXSPplcj3QzNg8D&_iepl%5BsearchType%5D=publication&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BcountLessEqual20%5D=1&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BinteractedWithPosition4%5D=1&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5BwithoutEnrichment%5D=1&_iepl%5Bposition%5D=4&_iepl%5BrgKey%5D=PB%3A280622466&_iepl%5BtargetEntityId%5D=PB%3A280622466&_iepl%5BinteractionType%5D=publicationTitle
{{cite journal|last1=Etherington |first1=Graham |first2=Brian |last2=Small |date=2003 |title=Taxonomy and identification of Atlas Flycatcher – a potential British vagrant |journal=Birding World|volume=16 |pages=252–256}}
{{cite journal|last1=Sætre|first1=Glenn-Peter|last2=Borge|first2=Thomas|last3=Moum|first3=Truls|title=A new bird species? The taxonomic status of 'the Atlas Flycatcher' assessed from DNA sequence analysis|journal=Ibis|date=2001|volume=143|issue=4|pages=494–497|doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.2001.tb04951.x}}
{{cite journal|last1=van den Berg |first1=Arnoud |author2=The Sound Approach |date=2006|title=Phenology and identification of Atlas and Iberian Pied Flycatchers |journal=Dutch Birding|volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=1–6|url=https://www.dutchbirding.nl/journal/pdf/DB_2006_28_1.pdf}}
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External links
- {{Avibase|name=Ficedula speculigera}}
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Category:Birds of North Africa
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