A long-tailed brown bird of reedbeds. Males have a black facial marking that looks like a moustache.
Males have a black moustache-like marking on the cheek, a brown body, and a long tail. Females lack the male's black marking.
It forms small groups in reedbeds and uses a ping call to keep in touch. It eats insects in spring and summer and also feeds on reed seeds in colder months.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.