Puerto Rican Tody is widespread and found in most forested areas throughout the island, including damp forests, humid mountain slopes, montane rain forests, coffee plantations, second growth pastures, riparian woodlands, dense growth in mountains and hills, dry limestone forests, wet and mesic limestone forests, and semi-arid coastal regions.
Subspecific information monotypic species. Foreign names . Puerto Rican Tody feeds mainly on insects such as mantises, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, bugs, moths, butterflies, dragonflies, flies, and also spiders. 5 g#R. The average metabolism was estimated at 1.9 kcal/bird day (Faaborg 1977), and experiments demonstrate the basal metabolic rate for nonbreeding adults is 3.24 ± 0.59 mL O2/g/hour (Merola-Zwartjes and Ligon 2000).
In studies with captive todies, they can consume about 40% of their body weight in insects per day (Raffaele et al 1998). Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus) is a species of bird in the Todidae family.
It can complete the chick diet with fruits. It occasionally takes small lizards. Puerto Rican Tody is a flycatching insectivore. Smallest-bodied and least colourful of the todies. Bright green above, with small blue carpal pat