This flycatcher lives in humid Andean montane forest. It has a gray crown and greenish-olive back, while the breast is gray in the southern subspecies ottonis and olive-yellow in northern nominate birds.
It has a gray crown, a greenish-olive mantle, and yellow-edged wing coverts. The breast is gray in the southern subspecies ottonis and olive-yellow in northern nominate birds.
It forages in the upper understory and subcanopy of humid montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.