This small hawk is about 23–28 cm long and inhabits hill and mountain forests on Sulawesi. Food records from northern specimens include insects such as grasshoppers and small snails.
Its upperparts are steel grey. The peach-orange chest becomes paler toward the belly, and the legs and eye-ring are yellow.
It is active by day and inhabits hill and mountain forests.
Stomach-content records from specimens collected in northern Sulawesi included insects containing grasshoppers and a small snail.
On 19 December 2018, an immature bird was photographed at 1,750 m in the Mekongga Mountains of southeast Sulawesi.
A juvenile female collected on Sopoetan volcano on 19 May 1939 had a chestnut back and black streaks on its pale cream breast and flanks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.