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title: "Little Pied Flycatcher"
description: "Ficedula westermanni — Uccelli. The little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/little-pied-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Little Pied Flycatcher

> Ficedula westermanni — Uccelli. The little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.

- Scientific name: *Ficedula westermanni*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 1293
- Wikidata: [Q73829](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73829)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13117](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13117)

## Names

- en: Little Pied Flycatcher
- de: Elsterfliegenschnäpper
- es: Papamoscas pío
- fr: Gobemouche pie
- pl: Muchołówka srokata

## Countries with the most observations

MY (391), ID (229), IN (208), TH (86), CN (65), PH (57), VN (57), BT (16), MM (16), BD (8), TL (6), NP (5)

## Summary

The little pied flycatcher (Ficedula westermanni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is native to the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.
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.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_pied_flycatcher

## Photo

![Little Pied Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/little-pied-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Don Wellmann · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229100223

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/little-pied-flycatcher?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).