The Lined Forest Falcon is a forest-dwelling falcon of humid tropical woods. Adults have gray heads and backs, pale barred underparts, and conspicuously pale eyes.
Adults have gray heads and upperparts, pale underparts with variable dusky barring, and white irises. The cere and bare facial area are yellow to orange.
It is active by day and is described as taking invertebrates from perches in forest habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.