| Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant
Hemitriccus mirandae Brazilian name: maria-do-nordeste |
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Serra
de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil October 2008 The
Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant is restricted to a few isolated forest
ridges in north-east Brazil at altitudes of between 600 and 1,000
metres. |
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It is olive-green above with creamy-white edgings to the tertials. The edges of the darkish tail are also olive-green. Around the eye, the lores, throat and breast are a buffy-pink while the remainder of the underparts are whitish to yellow. The iris is cinnamon-orange while the bill is dusky above and paler below. | |||
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It
feeds on insects which it forages for on the undersides of
leaves. There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto and additional information on Avibase . |
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