Stub-tailed Spadebill

The Stub-tailed Spadebill is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. References - * BirdLife International 2004. Platyrinchus cancrominus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007. More

Stub-tailed Spadebill is a tiny (9cm) Tyrant Flycatcher which ranges from Southern Mexico to North-west Costa Rica. It prefers dry to wet, semi-deciduous & gallery forest where it frequents the understorey perching low, just above (or even on the ground) where it scans the vegetation above before sallying upward to pick a hidden insect from the underside of a leaf or twig. Semi-deciduous forest @ Rincon de La Vieja N.P in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. More

Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus) by Don Jones. More