About 22 cm long, this large wren uses humid forest edges, second growth, and scrub in the Pacific lowlands. By day it forages on the ground for invertebrates.
It is about 22 cm long and weighs about 48–51 g.
It is active by day and searches the ground for invertebrates. Its reported habitats include humid lowland forest edges, second-growth forest, and scrub. A clutch is recorded as about three to four eggs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.