A Ceará state publication records the woodcreeper in humid mountain forest and says it climbs trunks to search bark for arthropods. It lists Ceará as well as the neighboring states of Paraíba and Pernambuco.
The Ceará Red Book gives its total length as 15–18.5 cm.
It lives in humid mountain forest and climbs trunks to search for arthropods on the bark. The profile also says it nests in tree cavities.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.