Brazilian name: maria-de-barriga-branca
October 2008
The
White-bellied Tody-Tyrant is distributed in the Amazon Basin
south of the Amazon river with a disjunct population in
north-east Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte to Alagoas.
When Ridgely &
Tudor published in 1994, this species was regarded as
conspecific with White-eyed Tody-Tyrant H. zosterops
though they did note that "Griseipectus is quite
different, grayer on breast (less olive) with a whitish belly;
naumburgi (ne. Brazil) is similar." and "More
than one species may be involved in which case H.
griseipectus (with naumburgi) could be known as the
White-bellied Tody-Tyrant."
It is found in humid forest where it perches inconspicuously before sallying upwards to glean insect prey from the undersides of leaves.
Apart from its greyish underparts and pale,
whitish eye, it has two yellowish wing-bars and a pink base to
its lower mandible.
There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto and
additional information is available on Avibase .
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