This 12–14 cm flycatcher is active by day in mountain forest and pine-oak woodland. It catches insects in the air by darting out from a perch. It does not migrate.
It is about 12–14 cm long and weighs about 8.6 g.
It is diurnal and searches for insects in montane evergreen forest, pine-oak woodland, and forest edges at about 600–3,600 m. The page describes aerial invertebrate feeding from a perch.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.