Adults have a broad bright chestnut eyebrow reaching the nape, dark eye-area feathers, a white throat and brown-and-buff streaking below. In Guyana's wet mossy high forests, it searches vertical moss-covered surfaces for insects.
Adults have a broad bright chestnut supercilium extending to the nape, dark lores and ear coverts, a white throat and streaked brown-and-buff underparts.
In the Guyana Highlands survey, Roraiman Barbtails were common insectivores on vertical moss-laden surfaces in forest above 1,000 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.