A ground-foraging bird of the high Andes. It searches the soil and spaces among rocks for arthropods.
It is about 17–18 cm long. It has a pale eyebrow, earth-brown upperparts, a creamy rump, pale underparts, and a dark band near the end of the tail.
It inhabits Andean ravines and cliffs above 2,000 m and searches on the ground or among rocks for arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.