The first time I photographed a common tody-flycatcher was in Castillo, Nicaragua in February 2015. I wrote at the time that "While the tyrant relative 'Great kiskadee' can grow to be 26 cm long, this little Common tody-flycatcher measures barely 10 cm. So it is the size of a wren, and just as quick. It is one of my absolute favorites in the rainforest. In some ways it looks as if it has shrunk in the wash. However, that is not the case with the cockiness..." This time I photographed it in the Atlantic rainforest on the absolute edge of its range, as far as you can get from the northernmost point in Central America.