This secretive warbler hides in dense grass and scrub. Its plain brown plumage blends into the cover where it searches for spiders and other small invertebrates.
Males have chocolate or olive-brown upperparts and an indistinct eyebrow. Females lack the dark spot in front of the eye.
It feeds on invertebrates, including spiders and amphipods, in dense scrub near waterways and forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.