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
The term Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers is used to refer to a group of similar-looking birds in the genus ''Ficedula'':
* Atlas pied flycatcher ''F. speculigera'' which breeds in Northwest Africa
* Collared flycatcher ''F. albicoll ...
; it is
endemic as a breeding species to
North-west Africa
The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...
.
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
External links
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Atlas pied flycatcher
Birds of North Africa
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