It occurs across the western Amazon, including Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia, reaching 800 m along the Andean foothills.
The male is uniformly bluish gray, with white spots on the wing coverts forming bars. The female has similar upperparts but solid rufous underparts. Both sexes have reddish-brown irises and conspicuous blue bare skin around the eye.
It forages in dense understory foliage along floodplains and seasonally flooded forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.