A 1996 report of a 1993 field project lists Sumbawa, Flores and Lomblen (now Lembata), in forest habitats other than dry thorn-scrub. These historical island records are not a current exhaustive range map.
A 2025 regional book about West Nusa Tenggara describes brown upperparts, a darker head, whitish throat, dull grey underside and ochre-brown outer tail feathers.
Oiseaux.net lists open forest, forest edges, mangroves and shrubs as habitat, and describes aerial sallies for invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.