This bird lives in inland Australia. Its head is pale brownish-gray with fine streaks, the back is gray-brown, and the pale cream underparts have diffuse gray streaking. Tracked pairs stayed close during and after breeding.
Adults have a light brownish-gray head with fine dark shaft streaks, gray-brown upperparts, and pale cream underparts with diffuse gray streaking.
In a tracking study at Fowlers Gap, New South Wales, pairs shared ranges and moved close to one another during and after the breeding season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.