This large ovenbird is recorded in high-altitude woodlands of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, including Polylepis woodland. Its large bill is conspicuous.
Adults have a darker crown, a pale buff line above the eye, gray-brown underparts and a large dark bill with a slightly curved tip.
It is associated with high-elevation Polylepis and Gynoxys woodland.
It searches for food on the forest floor and among low plants at woodland edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.