The White-throated Spadebill is a small bird with a broad, flat bill and a white throat. In Peru, it searches for food in the understory of humid montane forest.
It is mostly olive-brown, with dark and brown patterning on the sides of the head. A partly concealed yellow crown patch may be hard to see. The bill is flat and broad at the base, and the throat is white.
In Peru it forages in the understory of humid montane forest, moving among the lower vegetation and branches.
The bill is black, with a pale base to the lower mandible.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.