It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. This bird inhabits tall terra firme forests.

Nest is a small cup built in tree fork. While displaying courtship it will fly 30 meter above canopy slowly descending with tail upwards and wings spread. No further data.

Forages usually alone but sometmes in small groups hunting for large insects by perching and glaening. It perches on emerging trees high up in canpoy, where it remains motionless for some time, feeding also on fruits.

This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000 km². The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population size criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., less than 10,000 mature individuals in conjunction with appropriate decline rates and subpopulation qualifiers), even though the species is described as 'uncommon' in at least parts of its range (Stotz et al. 1996). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Sedentary throughout range with some seasonal movement.