This bustard lives mainly in South Africa. The male stands out with a blue-grey neck and underparts and a black-and-white face.
Males have a black-and-white face, blue-grey neck and underparts, and a dull chestnut back. Females tend to have a less vivid grey neck and more muted buff ear coverts.
It uses high grassland and eats a varied mix of grass, seeds and flowers, as well as insects, scorpions, and lizards. It is considered sedentary.
It lays 1–2 eggs, rarely 3, in a shallow ground scrape. The female alone incubates for 24–28 days.
Both males and females provide food to the chicks.
The wings also show bluish coloration in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.