Ward's flycatcher

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| name = Ward's flycatcher

| image = Pseudobias wardi 1870.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Pseudobias wardi |volume=2016 |page=e.T22707821A94138996 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22707821A94138996.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Pseudobias

| parent_authority = Sharpe, 1870

| species = wardi

| authority = Sharpe, 1870

}}

Ward's flycatcher (Pseudobias wardi), also known as Ward's flycatcher-vanga, is a species of bird in the family Vangidae. It is monotypic within the genus Pseudobias. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the English naturalist Christopher Ward, who collected the type specimen of the bird.

References

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{{cite book|last=Beolens|first=Bo|title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds|year=2003|publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London|page=358|author2=Watkins, Michael }}

{{cite web

| url = https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=558119

| title = ITIS Report: Pseudobias

| access-date = 29 July 2014

| publisher = Integrated Taxonomic Information System }}

}}

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Ward's flycatcher

Category:Endemic birds of Madagascar

Ward's flycatcher

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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