Stub Tailed Spadebill

Description: These are tiny wee large-eyed tyrant-flycatchers with amazing flat bills which live unobtrusively in the subcanopy of primary forest. Image taken at Rincon de La Vieja, Costa Rica. Date: 16 July 2008, 15:31. Source: Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus). Author: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

Description: The short stubby tail and the broad spade-like bill can be seen here. Image taken at Rincon de La Vieja, Costa Rica. Date: 16 July 2008, 15:32. Source: Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus). Author: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

Description: These are tiny wee large-eyed tyrant-flycatchers with amazing flat bills which live unobtrusively in the subcanopy of primary forest. Image taken at Rincon de La Vieja, Costa Rica. Date: 16 July 2008, 15:31. Source: Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus). Author: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

Description: Platyrinchus cancrominus 27-Mar-12 Carara National Park, Costa Rica. Date: 27 March 2012, 09:35. Source: Stub-tailed Spadebill. Author: Don Faulkner.