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Common tody-flycatcher

Todirostrum cinereum · Family Tyrannidae

Todirostrum cinereum

Family Tyrannidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
GBIF occurrence records
645,541
Countries and territories with records
23
Common tody-flycatcher
Dario Sanches from SÃO PAULO, BRASIL · Todirostrum cinereum.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Dario Sanches from SÃO PAULO, BRASIL · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Todirostrum_cinereum_-_Common_Tody-Flycatcher_XC249940.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 645,541 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (27.1%), Colombia (26.5%), Brazil (14.1%), Panama (7.5%) and Belize (6.2%); together they account for 81.3% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.67% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Todirostrum cinereum combines the genus name Todirostrum with the species epithet cinereum. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Todirostrum; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Todirostrum poliocephalum, Todirostrum nigriceps and Todirostrum maculatum.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 21st among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 4.7 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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