In May 2021, an expedition sponsored by the American Bird Conservancy with support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology was undertaken in order to determine if it still existed or was extinct.

However, a thickly forested mountainside near Yucucual, Monagas, Venezuela was identified in a photo on Instagram as a potential habitat for the species.

Their throat and lower face are whitish and their underparts pale yellow with faint olive streaks on the breast and sides.

Their iris is brown, their small rounded bill has a blackish maxilla and a paler mandible, and their legs and feet are gray.

[7] Urich's tyrannulet is positively known only from the eastern Venezuelan Coastal Range in northeastern Anzoátegui, Sucre, and northern Monagas states.

A very high percentage of the forest within its range has been cleared for crops (coffee, mango, banana, and citrus) and pasture.

Even protection in Cueva del Guácharo National Park is only nominal as parts of it have been cleared and burned for coffee plantations.