Bright males have a black body and a red-orange back. Females and young are browner, and the species uses grassy habitats.
Bright males have a black body and tail with red-orange shoulder and back feathers. Females, juveniles, and dull-plumaged males have a fawn-brown back and a creamy breast and belly.
It lives in northern and eastern Australia in open grassland and forest with grass underneath. Bright-plumaged males raise their red back feathers while pursuing females.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.