Both sexes have vivid green, blue, yellow, and red plumage, yet hide among thickets and leaf litter. Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage for invertebrates in riverine woodland.
Adults have an olive-green back, mustard-yellow breast, red undertail, turquoise wing and tail tips, and yellow face markings with a black band across the eye. Juveniles are duller.
Birds that migrate to southern Africa to breed forage among leaf litter in riverine evergreen forest and thickets for insects and other invertebrates. After breeding, they move to nonbreeding grounds in equatorial Africa.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.