Common Tody Flycatcher: Selve Verde Lodge, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, March 2025 — We got to Selve Verde late in the afternoon and were shown to our rooms, in the new block of rooms right by the river, and this was one of the first birds to greet us. Not an uncommon bird, but one that is sometimes hard to see. (I have come back from Costa Rica many times without having seen it.) A bright little bird of thickets and undergrowth, the Common Tody Flycatcher found in Eastern Costa Rica and Panama is a sub-species with more green in the back than most. “Tody” is from the French and Latin for “small bird” and the Tody Flycatcher is not related to the Tody family of colorful small birds of the Caribbean islands. It is a tyrant flycatcher, closely related most of our North American flycatchers. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.