Brazilian name: caneleiro

The Chestnut-crowned Becard is found in four disjunct areas: northern Venezuela, southern Venezuela, western and central Amazonia and south Brazil with neighbouring Paraguay. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

Sexes look alike being cinnamon-rufous above with a darker crown and a broad grey stripe extending from the eye round the back of the neck. Underparts are pale cinnamon-buff.

The nest is a bulky structure made of twigs, leaves and moss usually built in a fork between branches and out of reach of most predators. The entrance is in the side facing downwards while the nest chamber is usually near the top of the structure.