This bird is recorded in tropical rainforest in northern Queensland. A 2020 field note reported one bird feeding on Calliandra flowers in a garden at Lake Barrine; this is a single local feeding record.
The head is browner, with black ear-coverts. Its greenish-brown underparts have coarse pale spots and streaks.
A 2020 regional field note recorded one bird feeding on flowers of a Calliandra species in a garden at Lake Barrine. The observation does not establish flowers as a main food.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.