The Ochre-browed Thistletail is a high-Andean bird of western Venezuela. It is recorded mainly in Táchira, Mérida and Trujillo, at about 2,300–4,100 m according to the cited habitat account.
It is about 18 cm long. An ochre eyebrow stands out against the darker face; the back and tail are olive-brown, and the long tail has ragged-looking feather tips.
It lives in high grassland, scrub and tangled undergrowth, and gleans small invertebrates from foliage and branches. The cited account treats it as sedentary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.