Males are dark gray with a pale belly, while females have a dark crown and otherwise brown plumage. The cinereoniger subspecies in northeastern Colombia uses seasonally flooded savanna woodland and gallery forest.
Males are blackish gray with a paler belly and some white on the wings. Females have a blackish crown and are otherwise brown, paler below.
The cinereoniger subspecies in Colombia and Venezuela inhabits dense, seasonally flooded savanna woodland and gallery forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.