Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The Brown-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.
Brown-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant, but amazingly everyone got a good view in the end (that doesn't happen often). Just before lunch, we finally spotted our first Bare-throated Bellbird after having heard them all morning, then got distracted by a Plovercrest lek. Faustino had to cut a trail with his machete to get us down near the birds, and it took a lot of time to finally spot one of these beautiful hummers, chirping form inside dense growth. Still, the result made the late lunch all the better. More