Little pied flycatcher

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Ficedula westermanni |volume=2016 |page=e.T22709403A94207308 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22709403A94207308.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

| image = Little Pied Flycatcher 0A2A5713.jpg

| image_caption = Male from East Java, Indonesia

| genus = Ficedula

| species = westermanni

| authority = (Sharpe, 1888)

| synonyms = Muscicapula westermanni{{cite journal|author=Sharpe, R.B.|year=1888|title=List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. L. Wray in the Main Range of Mountains of the Malay Peninsula, Perak|journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|pages=268-281|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31825751}}

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The little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is native to the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.

The species was given the binomial Muscicapula westermanni by R.B. Sharpe in 1888 based on a specimen collected by Leonard Ray in Malaysia and named after Gerardus Frederik Westerman.{{cite book|page=594|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds|author1=Beolens, Bo|author2=Watkins, Michael|author3=Grayson, M.|year=2020| publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing}}

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

File:Female of Little Pied Flycatcher.jpg