This cisticola was recorded as a resident species in a bird study in northern Ghana. It has dull rust-brown upperparts, and at Mole National Park it was reported in dry woodland and in unburnt grass patches during the dry season.
Its upperparts are dull rust-brown, while the underparts are faintly yellow and white.
At Mole National Park it was reported throughout dry woodland, singing from the tops of tall trees. In the dry season it favored remaining grass patches in woodland that had mostly burned.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.