In Peru's eastern Andes, it forages in scrub, forest edges, and secondary forest. The source identifies the regional form as subspecies rufipes.
The page shows an adult of unknown sex from south-central Brazil. The description gives an olive-gray mantle, gray head, two thin yellow-edged wing bars, whitish underparts streaked with gray, pale-brown iris, black bill, and pale loral line.
The Peru account describes foraging in scrub, along forest edges, and in secondary forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.