This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the grasslands of the Cerrado, Pampa, and Chaco in South America.
Juveniles and immatures are mostly brownish orange, unlike adults.
At Tapira in southeastern Brazil, three adults took turns feeding nestlings and removing faecal sacs at a nest found in November 2004.
At Tapira in Brazil, it builds a deep cup nest in a shrub, binding plant fibres, flowers and soft cotton-like material with spider silk.
On 25 October 2005, one nest at Tapira, Brazil, held three pale cream eggs, with adults taking turns incubating.
At Tapira, Brazil, adults bring dragonflies, horseflies, flies, beetles and small grasshoppers to their young.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.