Field notes report this bird in the Pantanal and adjoining areas, in undergrowth of dry and gallery forests, riverine shrubs and cultivated areas. It forages among tangles and vines. Photographs show an individual with a uniformly gray crown.
In the Cotinga paper's photographs, the crown is uniformly gray. The authors note that this head pattern differs from earlier descriptions.
The Pantanal account places the bird in dry- and gallery-forest undergrowth, riverine shrubs and cultivated areas, and says it forages among tangles and vines.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.