This warbler occurs on Grand Bahama and Abaco in the Bahamas. A 2018 survey on Grand Bahama recorded birds searching pine trunks and palm leaves for small invertebrates.
The paper describes its long bill as suited to searching tree trunks for invertebrates.
During the 2018 survey, birds in Caribbean pine forest probed beneath peeling bark and searched for invertebrates on palm leaves.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.