Its grey plumage with black and ochre markings camouflages it on the ground. It catches flying insects in open areas at dusk and at night, and rests on the ground by day. The range recorded here follows Argentina's national parks information system.
It is grey with black and ochre markings and a white throat. Males have white wing bars and white outer tail corners; females have ochre wing bars, no white on the tail, and fine bars.
It occurs in shrub-steppe, shrubland-forest ecotones, forest openings, and roads. It catches flying insects from dusk into the night and rests on open ground by day.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.