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- Ficedula speculigera
Identification
12-13 cm
Adult breeding male
- Black and white.
- Large white forehead patch, reaching back almost to a line through the middle of the eye. The largest white forehead of all 'Pied Flycatchers'.
- Occasional birds may show a very thin complete white collar but the majority just have the white reaching as far back as the rear of the earcoverts.
- The majority show a black rump with the odd bird having a narrow, slightly paler one.
- Large white wing patches. Greater upperwing coverts entirely white, large white patch at the base of the primaries reaching the leading edge, tertials as other 'Pied Flycatchers'.
- White Underparts
- Entirely black tail with no white outer tail feathers.
Adult Female
Very like female Collared Flycatcher but greyer back, paler rump and uppertail often darker / blackish.
Confusion Species
European Pied Flycatcher, Semicollared Flycatcher, Collared Flycatcher
Distribution
Found in Morocco, northern Algeria and northern Tunisia.
Winters in West Africa
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Has formerly been considered to be a subspecies of European Pied Flycatcher.
Habitat
Very similar to European Pied Flycatcher, woods and orchards in the Atlas Mountains of NE Africa.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Atlas Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 17 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Atlas_Flycatcher
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.