A woodcreeper of humid Andean montane forest. It climbs trunks and branches while foraging at different forest heights.
The head and underparts have heavy beige streaks edged in dark. Its bill is long, pale grey and curved downward at the tip.
It forages on trunks and branches at several heights in humid montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.