The male has a black head and cinnamon back, while the female has a brown-toned head and pale underparts. This trogon uses forest understory and feeds mainly on insects.
The male has a blue eyebrow mark, black head, cinnamon back, and reddish chest. The female has a rusty-brown head and buff underparts.
It uses the lower forest canopy and feeds mainly on insects such as cicadas and stick insects. In some areas it also occurs in peat-swamp forest or forest near mangroves.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.