This flycatcher is restricted to dry habitats in northwestern Peru. Peru Aves labels its adult photographs sex unknown; the birds are mostly rufous with a gray-brown head and mantle and a black bill.
The adult photographs on Peru Aves are marked sex unknown. The bird is mostly rufous, with a gray-brown head and mantle, a black bill, and a crest it often raises.
It forages in the midstory and subcanopy of thin, sparse woodland and nearby scrub. The account describes it as uncommon and restricted to dry habitats of the northwestern lowlands.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.