It hides in dense coastal vegetation and sometimes runs across open clearings. Its loud song can reveal where it is.
It has dull brown upperparts, a lighter grey underside, and rufous wings. Its long tail makes up about half of its 21-centimetre total length, and its eye is bright red.
Shy and cryptic, it mostly uses dense coastal vegetation. It may scamper across clearings and can be located by its melodic song or sharp alarm call.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.