Movements and Migration

Presumably sedentary, but it avoids forests when the snow is deeper than 1 m (50 Ibarra, J. T., T. Altamirano, N. Gálvez, I. Rojas, J. Laker, and C. Bonacic (2010). Avifauna de los bosques templados de Araucaria araucana del sur de Chile. Ecología Austral 20(1):33-45. Close ).

Little known. It can use pine plantations for dispersal when native forest is absent (51 Tomasevic, J., and C. Estades (2008) Effects of the structure of pine plantations on their "softness" as barriers for ground-dwelling forest birds in south-central Chile. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 810–816. Close ). It appears to be highly mobile in fragmented forest (46 Vergara, P. M., and J.A. Simonetti (2006). Abundance and movement of understory birds in a Maulino forest fragmented by pine plantations. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:3937–3947. Close ). It is also one of the understory birds most likely to move to scattered cover from dense forest. It does not move to open pastures, making it difficult to assess its dispersal and movement (44 Sieving, K. E., M. F. Willson, and T. L. De Santo (1996) Habitat barriers to movement of understory birds in fragmented south-temperate rainforest. Auk 113: 944-949. Close , 52 Cornelius, C., H. Cofré, and P. A. Marquet (2000). Effects of habitat fragmentation on bird species in a relict temperate forest in semiarid Chile. Biological Conservation. 14: 534-543. Close ).

Presumably resident.