Males are bluish grey and females brown; in the Peruvian Andes it forages on the ground at forest edges and openings
Males are bluish grey, slightly darker above, with a black-streaked whitish throat. Females are brown with a whitish throat faintly streaked brown, and have dusky bills and legs
On Peru's eastern Andean slope it is recorded as a seasonal austral migrant to humid montane forest and forages mostly on the ground at edges and openings. Breeding on the northwestern slope is reported as possible
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.