Little pied flycatcher

Little pied flycatcher
Male from East Java, Indonesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Ficedula
Species:
F. westermanni
Binomial name
Ficedula westermanni
(Sharpe, 1888)
Synonyms

Muscicapula westermanni[2]

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.[3]

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

Female from Sattal India

References

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  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ficedula westermanni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22709403A94207308. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22709403A94207308.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Sharpe, R.B. (1888). "List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. L. Wray in the Main Range of Mountains of the Malay Peninsula, Perak". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 268–281.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, M. (2020). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 594.
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