This small bird lives in dry Andean scrub and open woodland. Females are duller overall and have a narrower, paler breast band.
Females are duller overall and have a narrower, paler band across the breast.
It uses dry to locally semi-humid scrub, open woodland including Polylepis, and urban parks, foraging in lower vegetation alone, in pairs or small flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.