A gray, ground-dwelling bird with long legs and tail, it often runs while searching for food.
It has a gray body, pale underparts, a long tail, and black legs.
It walks or runs on the ground and eats insects, spiders, eggs, and small vertebrates.
Both mates build a platform of branches in a tree. The female lays 2 white eggs, sometimes marked with brown or pale purple spots.
It catches small mammals, snakes, lizards, and the chicks of other birds on the ground.
The bill is short, and a white stripe runs above the eye.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.