Common Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ShrublandDomed nestTiny · 6 g

Common Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum), photo 4 — Photo: Pat Hall · CC BY 4.0

Common Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum cinereum), photo 5 — Photo: Pat Hall · CC BY 4.0

What the Common Tody-Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Common Tody-Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: 2 km SW Palanda, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · El Oro: Carcabon, Arenillas Ecological Reserve, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The common tody-flycatcher is a tiny, big-headed bird, 8.8 to 10.2 cm (3.5 to 4.0 in) long, weighing 4 to 8 g (0.14 to 0.28 oz), and with a long, flattened, straight bill. Adult males of the nominate subspecies T. c. cinereum have a glossy black forecrown and a slate-gray hindcrown and nape. Their lores and the area around their eyes are glossy black. Their upper back is slate-gray that becomes dark olive all the way to the uppertail coverts. Their wings are black with yellow edges on the flight feathers and yellow edges and tips on the coverts; the last show as two wing bars.

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When to see the Common Tody-Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Common Tody-Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 19 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Colombia Brazil Panama Belize Venezuela Ecuador Peru Mexico Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Guyana El Salvador Argentina Suriname Paraguay Bolivia French Guiana

About the Common Tody-Flycatcher

The common tody-flycatcher is a small passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Mexico, in every Central American country, and in every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay.

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Easily confused with

Yellow-lored Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum poliocephalumThe yellow-lored tody-flycatcher is 8.8 to 10.2 cm (3.5 to 4.0 in) long and weighs about 5 to 6 g (0.18 to 0.21 oz).

Black-headed Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum nigricepsThe black-headed tody flycatcher is a small bird with a glossy black head and a white throat.

Spotted Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum maculatumThe spotted tody-flycatcher is 8.9 to 10.2 cm (3.5 to 4.0 in) long and weighs 6.4 to 8.3 g (0.23 to 0.29 oz).

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