Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher
          
         
            
               Ranges from Costa Rica to western
               Ecuador and westernmost
               Venezuela.
          
         
            
               Todirostrum nigriceps
            
               (L 3.5")
          
         
            
               Canopy Camp
            
               Darien
            
               03Oct2016
          
         
            
               Todi means small bird;
               rostrum means bill; nigriceps
               is Latin for black-headed.
          
         
            
               Do I really need to know
            
               Why the Flycatcher
            
               Sits atop the tallest weathered pole
            
               On a spring morning
            
               And releases this most fantastic trill?
               (Joe DeMino)
          
         
            
               © David L.
               Ross, Jr.
            
               Macaulay
               Library