This Amazonian forest bird sometimes follows columns of army ants. The male has a black body and rufous wings; the female is rufous-brown with pale wing bars. Both sexes have red bare skin around the eye.
The male has a black head, underparts, and tail, a mantle scaled with white, and mostly rufous wings. Both sexes have a broad ring of bright red bare skin around the eye.
It forages mainly in terra firme forest and sometimes follows army-ant columns.
The female is rufous-brown with two broad whitish wing bars and large white spots on the tertial feathers. Her red bare eye-ring is less prominent than the male’s.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.