About 35.5 cm long. The olive-brown back, gray head and neck, rufous-and-black underparts, red legs, and yellow-green bill are useful field marks.
The head and neck are gray, and the back is olive-brown. The underparts mix rufous and black; the legs are red and the bill is yellow-green.
In Peru it forages along streams and in secondary growth within seasonally flooded forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.