About the size of a House Sparrow, it searches for food in leaf litter and thickets by day. It eats insects and plant parts and builds its nest in palm trees.
It is about the size of a House Sparrow. Mpala's field guide gives a length of about 17 cm.
By day it rummages through leaf litter or prowls in thickets for food. It eats insects and plant parts, nests in palms, and the female incubates the eggs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.