Puerto Rican Tody (Todus mexicanus) - 28Dec2014

The Puerto Rican Tody is one of 5 todies of the Carribean of which I have seen 4.  The latin name is plain wrong as the bird is not found in Mexico.  It is thought that the original specimen was mislabeled from Mexico, but clearly it is endemic to Puerto Rico.  Puerto Rico had initiated a motion to make it their national bird but the motion failed because of the mistaken latin name!  This was one of the first trips outside the US that I took when I first started birding so it was memorable.