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