Common Tody-flycatcher

The Common Tody-Flycatcher or Black-fronted Tody-Flycatcher, Todirostrum cinereous, is a appallingly little passerine bird in the dictator flycatcher family. It breed from southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil.
The Common Toddy-Flycatcher is a tiny, big-headed bird, 9.5-10.2 cm long, weighing 6.5-6.8 g, and with a lengthy, at once black bill. The greater head is black, shading to dark grey on the nape and dark olive-green on the rest of the upperparts. The as a rule cock tail is black with white tips, and the wings are blackish with two yellow wing bars and yellow binding to the feathers. The lower than parts are finally yellow. Sexes are similar, but youthful birds have a greyer higher head, fawn wing markings, and paler under parts.
Males of this genus have a early grasshopper-like tick te’e’e’e’e’e’t call magnificent like a steamy Kingbird, and a dawn song consisting of a dreadfully fast high tic chronic up to 110 times a minute for minutes on finish.
It is a very common citizen in gardens, out of the sun agricultural estate, second boost and the confines and clearings of woodland, even although it avoids the dense heart of adult forest and also bone-dry areas. The Common Tody-Flycatcher is habitually seen in pairs, making rapid dashing sallies or hovering to pick small arthropods off the plants. It frequently wags its tail as it moves askance along brushwood.

It breeds from sea height to 1150 meters elevation, locally 1500 meters. Both male and female birds build a pocket nest with a vectored side entry, which is habitually balanced from a thin bough or vine 1-5 meters high in a tree, though infrequently it can go up to 30 meters. The female incubate the two typically unspotted white eggs for the 15–16 days previous to hatch.

Common names

English: Black-fronted Tody-Flycatcher, Common Tody-Flycatcher

Spanish: Espatulilla Común

Portuguese: Ferreirinho, Ferreirinho-relógio, Reloginho, Relógio, Sebinho-relógio