Pink-throated Becard

The pink-throated becard is 16.5 to 17.5 cm (6.5 to 6.9 in) long and weighs 31 to 44 g (1.1 to 1.6 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males are mostly black to dark sooty gray. Their face and underparts are slightly paler than their back. They have the eponymous pink patch on the lower throat and upper breast, though sometimes it is indistinct. They have some white at the bend of the wing that is usually visible only in flight. Adult females have somewhat individually variable plumage. In general they have a grayish brown crown and nape. They have a small buff spot above the lores on an otherwise buff face. Their back is gray, their rump gray with a rufous tinge, and their wings and tail rufous. Their throat and underparts are buff. Both sexes have a brown to dark brown iris, a bill that can be all black or have a black maxilla and a gray mandible, and blackish to gray legs and feet.

The pink-throated becard is a bird of the Amazon Basin and the Guiana Shield. It is found from southeastern Colombia south through eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru into northern Bolivia. From there its range extends east across southern and eastern Venezuela, the Guianas, and Brazil north of a line roughly from southern Mato Grosso do Sul northeast to the Atlantic in Maranhão. It inhabits a variety of forested landscapes, especially evergreen terra firme. It also is found in várzea, swamp, and savanna forests. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 800 m (2,600 ft) in Brazil. It reaches 500 m (1,600 ft) in Colombia, 600 m (2,000 ft) in Ecuador, 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in Peru, 1,300 m (4,300 ft) in Bolivia, and 800 m (2,600 ft) in Venezuela.

The pink-throated becard is believed to feed mostly on insects and also include fruits in its diet. It usually forages in pairs though sometimes in small family groups and regularly joins mixed-species feeding flocks. It forages from the forest's mid-story to its canopy, taking food from foliage with sallies from a perch that may include a short hover.