Males are rufous while females are gray and rufous, giving the species a strong difference in appearance by sex. It searches dense vegetation for food.
Males have rufous heads, backs, and breasts, a black tail with a white tip, and blue-green bare skin around the eye. Females have a light gray head and underside with rufous back, wings, and tail.
It is active by day and is usually alone or in pairs. It moves through dense vegetation to take caterpillars, other insects, and spiders.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.