This ovenbird ranges across northern South America and the Amazon region. It has a reddish-brown face and dark brown crown and lives in tropical lowland evergreen forest. It digs a tunnel into an earth bank and builds its nest cup at the far end.
It is about 16–18 cm long, with a reddish-brown face, faintly scalloped malar area, and dark brown crown.
It lives in tropical lowland evergreen forests and eats insects, annelid worms, and ants. It makes a shallow cup nest from woven leaf stalks and places it at the end of a long tunnel dug into an earth bank.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.