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Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

Todirostrum maculatum

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 7 g
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 1
Photo: Charlotte Kirchner · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 2
Photo: Charlotte Kirchner · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 3
Photo: Rajan Rao · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 4
Photo: David F. Belmonte · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 5
Photo: David F. Belmonte · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 6
Photo: Vincent A. Vos · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 7
Photo: Vincent A. Vos · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 8
Photo: Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 9
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum), photo 10
Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

What the Spotted Tody-Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Spotted 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 · Orellana: river island at Añangu, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Spotted 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 · Orellana: river island at Añangu, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The 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). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies T. m. maculatum have a mostly gray head with a small white spot above the lores and some black and white streaks on the crown. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are olive. Their wings are brownish black with yellow edges on the flight feathers and yellowish edges and tips on the coverts; the last sometimes show as pale wing bars.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

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

Where to see the Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 10 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Peru Colombia Guyana French Guiana Suriname Ecuador Trinidad & Tobago Bolivia Venezuela

About the Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

The spotted tody-flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found on Trinidad and in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum nigriceps) Black-headed Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum nigricepsThe black-headed tody flycatcher is a small bird with a glossy black head and a white throat. Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum) Yellow-browed Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum chrysocrotaphumThe yellow-browed tody-flycatcher is 8.6 to 10 cm (3.4 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 7 g (0.25 oz). Maracaibo Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum viridanumThe Maracaibo tody-flycatcher is 9 to 10.2 cm (3.5 to 4.0 in) long.

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