The Bar-winged Prinia has an olive back marked by white wing bars. It searches for insects in gardens, parks, and secondary growth on Sumatra, Java, and Bali.
It has a long tail and olive-green upperparts, with white wing bars, a white throat and central chest, and a yellowish belly.
It uses gardens, parks, mangroves, secondary growth, and plantations with trees and bushes. It eats mainly insects and larvae, foraging from the ground to treetops.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.