This cuckoo has a red eye ring and bluish-gray head. It uses the middle levels of trees, and breeding birds studied in native woodland in east-central Argentina nested in trees.
It has red around the eyes and a bluish-gray head. The back and breast are gray-brown, the belly is pale buff-white, and the tail has white tips.
It is usually solitary and uses the middle levels of trees. A breeding study in east-central Argentina found nests on native trees and monitored six nesting attempts across eight breeding seasons.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.