Characterization: Small species measuring about 12cm in length. It has noticeable bars on its wing plumage, its tail and flank are brown, and its beak is long.

Distribution: Throughout the Americas.

Habitat: Houses, gardens, barns, swamps, and forest edges.

Habits: A diurnal species, this bird is restless by nature, moving around sometimes on the ground, jumping through branches and foliage. The individual may build a small nest to sleep alone in.

Diet: It is omnivorous, feeding mainly on arthropods and their larvae, and also on lizards, seeds, and on the remains of small fruit.

Breeding: This bird lays 2 eggs in nests built under tiles, tree hollows, and will also readily accept birdhouses if their entrances are not too big, as this could allow easy access to enemies.

In the UFRA area: In the surveys conducted at the São Francisco Sugarmill areas, this species of bird was spotted frequently. It was found 63 times. Its spatial distribution was quite broad, having been seen in the organic sugarcane fields, exotic woods, wetlands with herbaceous plants, in restored native forests, in mixed forests in regeneration, native forests, in drainage ditches, in forests in spontaneous regeneration, and in fields in spontaneous regeneration.