Todirostrum cinereum
            
               (L 3.75" Wt 0.23 oz)
          
         
            
               Common and widespread from south
               Mexico to northeast Argentina.
            
               ...8 subspecies.
          
         
            
               South of Guayaquil
            
               12Feb2013
          
         
            
               Those in eastern Ecuador
               have a yellow throat.
          
         
            
               Cute birds.
            
               Ugly birds.
            
               Poor birds,
            
               Hungry birds,
            
               Born birds,
            
               Sleeping birds.
            
               I like birds!
            
                 (Myra Cohn Livingstone)
          
         
            
               Todirostrum means small
               bill; cinereum means ashy-
               colored.
          
         
            
               © David L.
               Ross,
Jr.
            
               Macaulay
               Library