The habitats are humid forest, often on forest edges and in secondary succession forests.
The habitats are humid forest, often on forest edges and in secondary succession forests.
It lives in mountain of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela year-round.
It is found in wet and very wet humid forests. It can be found in forest edges and in secondary forest, usually in the treetops.
Like others manakins, the White-bearded manakin is a compact, brightly coloured forest bird,
In Colombia it is up to 1000 m high above sea level from Valley of the Sinú River to the east to the western base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the west of the Guajira.Also to the south until the high valley of the river Cauca and the valley of Magdalena until the northwest of Santander. East of the Andes from Arauca to the west of Caquetá and Vaupés.
It is found Colombia between 2200 and 4000m, in the Eastern Cordillera from the Northeast of Santander to Cundinamarca, in the Central Cordillera from Caldas to Nariño and header of Magdalena Valley in Huila. It is also found in northern Peru.
Has very restricted distribution, on the Nevado Del Ruiz in the Central Andes of Colombia, where it occupies the páramo.