This earthcreeper inhabits dry highlands of southwestern Bolivia. Accounts describe its long, nearly straight bill and ground-foraging on sparsely vegetated, rocky slopes.
It has a long, nearly straight bill, a white throat, and grayish crown and upper back.
In southwestern Bolivia it is associated with rocky slopes and ravines with sparse Puna grass, shrubs, and Puya, and is mainly terrestrial.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.