A ground-dwelling cuckoo with a red bill and long tail, living in the forest undergrowth of Southeast Asia.
It has a black head and neck, blue and red bare skin around the eyes and cheeks, grey-blue wings, a white belly, a long dark tail, and red legs.
It lives mostly in forest and dense undergrowth, with records up to 900 m. Its shy nature makes its status difficult to assess in the wild.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.