Atlas pied flycatcher

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.^[2]

Atlas pied flycatcher
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Ficedula
Species:	F. speculigera
Binomial name
Ficedula speculigera (Bonaparte, 1850)
Synonyms
Muscicapa speculifera Bonaparte, 1850[1] Ficedula hypoleuca speculigera (Bonaparte, 1850)

Ficedula speculigera - MHNT

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.^[3] The bird has large white patches on its wing and forehead.^[2] Identification is also covered in Etherington and Small (2003)^[4] and van den Berg et al. (2006).^[5]