Yellow-bellied Dacnis (Dacnis flaviventer)
Male Yellow-bellied Dacnis, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image Brazil

The Yellow-bellied Dacnis is found in the Amazon Basin, usually in the canopy and often beside rivers. Its behaviour is very like that of the Blue Dacnis.

The male is distinctive with yellow on the belly and a red eye. The head is black with dull green on the crown and nape.

Female Yellow-bellied Dacnis, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image The female, seen here in photos 2 and 3, is olive brown above and dull brownish buff below with indistinct mottling on the throat and breast.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 1, Plate 11; in Hilty & Brown, Plate 47; and in Isler, Plate 24.
Female Yellow-bellied Dacnis, Cristalino, Mato Grosso, Brazil, April 2003 - click for larger image
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