Little pied flycatcher

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

Little pied flycatcher
Male from East Java, Indonesia
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific 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 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