A small hawk of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea that uses trees or tall shrubs as cover before striking at small birds.
The head and upperparts are slate grey, with a chestnut half-collar. The white underparts are finely barred rufous, and the eyes and long legs are yellow.
It ambushes small birds from trees or tall shrubs, hunting by day and also around dawn and dusk.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.