Distribution

Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant is resident from Nicaragua south to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It is common on the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica and Panama (Ridgely and Gwynne 1989, Stiles and Skutch 1989). There also are recent records from eastern Nicaragua (Munera-Roldan et al. 2007, Sandoval and Arendt 2011), where its status is less clear, but it probably also is common in much of this region. On the Pacific slope of southern Central America, Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant has been recorded only from eastern Panama in the Darién, where it ranges up into the lower foothills (Ridgely and Gwynne 1989). The distribution extends to northern and western Colombia, south to northwestern Ecuador (Hilty and Brown 1986, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001a).

Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant primarily occurs in the lowlands, up to 600 m in Costa Rica (Stiles and Skutch 1989) and to 800-900 m in western Colombia and Ecuador (Hilty and Brown 1986, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001a).

Endemic to the Americas.

Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant primarily occurs from the midstory to the canopy of humid lowland forest (Sherry 1984); however, it also is found in semi-open forest, in tall secondary growth, or at edges and gaps of the forest (Stiles and Skutch 1989). Slud (1964) also reported Black-capped Pygmy Tyrants outside of closed forests in overgrown field habitats and in thickets of shrub growth, and it also has been reported in cacao plantations (Vogt et al. 2006).

None reported.

None reported.