This hornero ranges from western Ecuador to southwestern Colombia and northwestern Peru. It is cinnamon-colored, with a grey-brown crown and white eyebrow and throat. It searches on the ground for arthropods and snails, and builds an oven-shaped mud nest.
Its plumage is cinnamon, with a grey-brown crown and a white eyebrow and throat. The overall tone is warm reddish brown.
It forages on the ground for arthropods and snails. Pairs build a mud nest shaped like an oven.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.