Common Tody-Flycatcher

Todirostrum cinereum (Linnaeus, 1766)

Common Tody-Flycatcher, Todirostrum cinereum, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family that breeds from southern Mexico through Middle America and on into northern Argentina. It is a tiny bird with a large head and a long, flat, straight bill. Its range covers Mexico, all of Central America, and much of mainland South America, but not Chile or Uruguay. It is found in open and semi-open country, including forest edges, secondary growth, mangroves, orchards, plantations, thickets, gardens and other disturbed habitats, and it avoids dense forest.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: s Mexico to ne Argentina