In a Venezuelan field study, males had longer tails than females, while the sexes were otherwise similar in measured body features. The species inhabits cloud forest in the northern coastal mountains.
In one field study, males had longer tails than females, but the measured body dimensions were otherwise similar between sexes.
It inhabits cloud forest at about 800–2,200 m in the northern Venezuelan coastal range. At the study site, contour feathers molted year-round and flight feathers from June to November.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.