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European Pied Flycatcher

Ficedula hypoleuca · Family Muscicapidae

Ficedula hypoleuca

Family Muscicapidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
GBIF occurrence records
2,581,334
Countries and territories with records
107
European Pied Flycatcher
Mark Medcalf · Ficedula hypoleuca -Wood of Cree Nature Reserve, Scotland -male-8a.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Mark Medcalf · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart · Ficedula_hypoleuca_-_European_Pied_Flycatcher_XC493770.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 2,581,334 occurrence records from 107 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Finland (36.3%), Sweden (27.1%), Spain (10.5%), Norway (5.4%) and the Netherlands (5.2%); together they account for 84.5% of the total. In Finland, this species accounts for 3.8% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Ficedula hypoleuca combines the genus name Ficedula with the species epithet hypoleuca. The Warbla app catalog lists 35 species of the genus Ficedula; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ficedula parva, Ficedula albicollis and Ficedula albicilla.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is 22.1 times the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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