The male has a white throat but no white wing or tail patches, even in flight. In dry Pacific lowlands from western Ecuador to Peru, it catches flying insects at night.
The male has a white throat, but lacks white patches on the wings and tail even in flight.
It is nocturnal and catches flying insects over arid scrub, brushy woodland and second growth in the Pacific lowlands, up to about 800 m.
At El Azufre in Valdivia, Ecuador, an egg lay directly on vegetation-free ground. It was pale with brown markings.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.