The Red-billed Pied-tanager is distributed in the Guianas, the lower Amazon Basin and much of western Amazonia south of the Amazon river. It is found in the borders and canopy of humid forest. All three of these photos were taken from canopy towers.

It is usually seen in small groups accompanying a mixed-species canopy flock, as it was in the first photo. It eats mainly fruit but also some insects.

There is a recording at xeno-canto.