The Atlantic Royal Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is often considered a subspecies of Onychorhynchus coronatus.
The Onychorhynchus swainsoni is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
ADD: Onychorhynchus swainsoni is split from O. coronatus (Stotz et al. 1996, BLI); SACC needs proposal AS ADD: Contopus punensis is split from C. cinereus (Ridgely & Greenfield 2001); SACC needs proposal AS ADD: Knipolegus franciscanus is split from K. aterrimus (Silva & Oren 1992, Ridgely and Tudor 1994); SACC needs proposal AS ADD: Sirystes albogriseus is split from S. More