This ovenbird is endemic to Peru's arid coastal plain. It walks on the ground to forage and is recorded up to about 700 m along the Andean foothills.
It is sandy brown with a faint pale supercilium. Its wing-coverts are grayish with sandy edges; rufous flight-feather webs show when it flies, and the tail is gray.
It forages on the ground across the arid coastal plain.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.