The Drab Water Tyrant is a small, mostly brown flycatcher commonly reported from the Amazon region. It forages alone or in pairs along riverbanks.
It is about 13.5 cm long, mostly brown, with pale lores and eyebrow and a broad, diffuse pale eye-ring. The bill and legs are black.
It searches for food alone or in pairs along Amazonian riverbanks. The account does not report feeding away from river edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.