The Noronha Elaenia occurs on the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil. It uses scrub, woodland, thickets, and gardens and eats insects and small fruit.
Its head is olive-brown with a slight crest. It has bold pale wing-bars, grey-brown upperparts, and paler yellowish to whitish underparts.
It uses scrub, woodland, thickets, and gardens and eats insects and small fruit. In a 2009 survey on the islands, it was recorded more often where woodland and bushes were abundant and at sites with natural vegetation than in human-influenced sites.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.