Drab-breasted Bamboo-tyrant - Hemitriccus diops

Drab-breasted Bamboo-tyrant (Hemitriccus diops)

Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil
July 2002

The Drab-breasted Bamboo-tyrant is found in south east Brazil and into north east Argentina. It inhabits humid forest and secondary growth where it forages in the undergrowth especially in bamboo patches (see second photo).

It is dull olive above with a white eye-ring and supraloral spot. The throat and breast are a dull grey while the belly is whiter.

An indistinct white crescent can sometimes be seen across the lower throat (Sick says this is "less visible in life" and, indeed, does not show in these photos). There is a hint of yellow on the wing bend and on the crissum.

When hawking for insects it seems to make a whirring noise with its wings.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 35; and Sick, Page 469.

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