A small bird that forages in the mid-story of Amazonian forest, it has different male and female plumages. Both sexes wag the tail from side to side. The species is recorded up to 1,100 m on the eastern Andean slope.
Males are grey, with black wing coverts and white wing-bars. South of the Amazon River, males have an irregular black throat patch; north of it, the throat is grey like the rest of the underparts. Females are grey-brown above and rufous-buff below, with brown wing-bars.
It forages in the forest mid-story, often with mixed-species flocks. Both sexes wag the tail from side to side. The account records it to 1,100 m along the eastern Andean slope.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.