This ovenbird occurs in river-edge and floodplain forests in Bolivia. Accounts describe a long tail and a reddish iris.
It has a long tail, reddish iris, pale yellowish legs and a pale base to the bill.
It uses gallery, river-edge and várzea forest borders; in Bolivia's Llanos de Moxos it also occurs along seasonally wet woodland. Pairs or family groups forage acrobatically around mid-level vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.