Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Iquitos, Peru

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Mato Grosso, Brazil


Identification & Behavior: ~10 cm (4 in). The Spotted Tody-Flycatcher has yellow-olive back and gray head. The wing coverts are dusky fringed with yellow. The throat is whitish and the rest of the underparts yellow; both speckled and streaked with dusky. The iris is yellow. The bill is black and relatively long. It forages in at forest edges and second growth. It is similar to the Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher but is distinguished by having a gray head without a broad yellow eyebrow, yellow iris, and by foraging at forest edges and second growth.

Status: The Spotted Tody-Flycatcher is common and widespread in Amazonia. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Espatulilla Moteada.

Sub-species: Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum maculatum signatum), P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1881.

Meaning of Name: Todirostrum: tody= one that resembles a member of the genus Todus Brisson 1760 and rostrum= beak. maculatum: L. macula= spot, maculatus= spotted, blotched.

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Distribution Map
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References:

    • Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum.  http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.