Little Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni)

Family
Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers And Chats)

Size
11 - 12.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe, 1888)

Habitat
Primary and secondary lower to upper montane forest. From 850 - 3,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines (B), Thailand, Timor-Leste (B) (NB), Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually solitary but often in pairs during breeding season.

Voice
A thin, piping 'tsi-tsi-tsi-tsi' followed by a soft, rattling 'trrr'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (100)...)

Little Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) [XC769960]
by Greg Irving from Heshun Ancient Town, Baoshan, Yunnan, China (song)

Little Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) [XC31376]
by Fabian Ducry & David Marques from Flores, Ruteng, Indonesia (song)

Nest
Composed of moss lined with fine white roots, located in creeper, about 12 m above the ground.

Eggs (Guide)
1; fawn.

Subspecies
Geographical variation patchy and irregular, and apparently confined to females, with considerable degree of intermediacy in plumages. For example, australorientis intergrades with collini in central Himalayas and perhaps better merged with latter, and female mayri often considered indistinguishable from females in Philippines. Further taxonomic review and clarification is required.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

collini (Rothschild, 1925) - Breeds central Himalayas from northern India (Himachal Pradesh) east to central Nepal. Non-breeding in foothills and north-eastern India.
australorientis (Ripley, 1952) - Breeds eastern Himalayas (eastern from central Nepal) east to Sikkim and north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam south to Meghalaya), south-central China (south-eastern Xizang, northern and southern Yunnan, southern Guizhou, Guangxi), Myanmar, northern and south-central Thailand, northern and central Laos and north-western Vietnam. Non-breeding also Bangladesh.
langbianis (Kloss, 1927) - Southern Laos (Bolovens Plateau) and south-central Vietnam (Langbian).
westermanni (Sharpe, 1888) - Malay Peninsula, northern Sumatra, Borneo, southern Philippines (Mindanao), Sulawesi (except south), Sula Is (Taliabu) and Moluccas (Bacan, Seram).
rabori (Ripley, 1952) - Northern and central Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Panay, Negros).
palawanensis (Ripley & Rabor, 1962) - Southern Palawan (Mt Victoria, Mt Mantalingajan), in western Philippines.
hasselti (Finsch, 1898) - Southern Sumatra, Java, Bali, southern Sulawesi and western and central Lesser Sundas (Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Alor).
mayri (Ripley, 1952) - Wetar and Timor, in eastern Lesser Sundas.

References
See References.

Files:

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