The male has a gray back and tail with a black crown; the female is cinnamon to rufous. In Peru, the species is recorded in second growth and river islands along the Amazon and Ucayali.
The male has an unmarked gray back and tail and a black crown. The female is cinnamon to rufous, with a pale throat.
It forages in second-growth forest and on river islands along the Amazon and Ucayali rivers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.