This small honeyeater lives in open eucalypt forest and woodland in Australia. Small flocks glean mainly insects from bark, branches, leaves, and flowers, and also take nectar.
Adults have a brown head, olive-green upperparts, pale grey-to-buff underparts, and a creamy-yellow to orange eyering. Young birds have a blue eyering.
It uses open eucalypt forest and woodland, usually foraging in small flocks and gleaning mainly insects from bark, branches, leaves, and flowers; it also eats nectar.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.