Only 0.1 km² is effectively protected by the Fundación ProAves Colibri del Sol Bird Reserve (which also harbours the highly threatened Dusky Starfrontlet and Fenwick's Antpitta).
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It is restricted to a narrow swath of treeline vegetation (scrub, stunted trees and Polylepis woodland) situated between montane forest and Páramo grasslands that is often just hundreds of meters wide.