Drab Water-tyrant (Ochthornis littoralis)
Drab Water-tyrant, Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil
April 2003

The Drab Water-tyrant is distributed in the Amazon Basin with the exception of the lower Amazon downstream of the rio Tapajós.

Drab Water-tyrant, Thaimaçu, Pará, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image It is found along rivers where there are banks and tangles of vegetation. They are usually in pairs a metre or so above the surface of the water.

It is mostly pale sandy brown with darker wings and tail, a white supercilium and a fairly broad black bill.

There is an illustration in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 40.
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