This mountain bird is known only from Buru Island, Indonesia. During a 2006 survey, birds at 1,750 m clung to tree bark and fed in a nuthatch-like manner. Its habitat was described as montane forest with abundant epiphytes and stunted trees.
The head is grey-olive, the back yellow-green, and the throat and chest rufous-orange; the underside is dark olive-grey.
At 1,750 m in central Buru, several birds clung to trunks and searched the bark in a nuthatch-like way. The observers reported the species in a distinctive montane forest with abundant epiphytes and stunted trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.