In Bolivia's highlands, D'Orbigny's Chat-Tyrant perches upright on bushes and sallies for arthropods. It is more secretive in dry Polylepis woodland.
It is a small tyrant flycatcher about 12.5 to 13.5 cm long.
On Bolivia's upper eastern-Andean slopes and northern Altiplano, it occurs alone or in pairs, perching upright on bushes before sallying for arthropods. It is more secretive in dry Polylepis woodland.
In Bolivia, it often sallies to the ground to catch arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.