Voice includes high-pitched piping as well as "chik!” notes more typical of a flowerpecker.

Habitat degradation, through clearance for agriculture, timber and charcoal-burning, continues to pose a serious threat to remaining fragments.

However, more surveys revealed that this species is common even in degraded habitats and plantations and thus was downlisted to least concern.

Conservation actions proposed include to conduct surveys in potentially suitable habitat in order to calculate density estimates, and calculate remaining extent of suitable habitat to refine the population estimate and promote areas where it is present to be protected.

Promote more effective protection of the Northern Negros Natural Park and other remaining lowland forest tracts in the Western Visayas.