Males are black, while females are olive-brown. The bird forages inconspicuously in dense understory in flooded or seasonally flooded forest.
The male is entirely black, with a bluish-grey bill and dark eye. The female has grey-olive upperparts, two brown wingbars, a brown breast with black streaks, a plain whitish belly, and a mostly rufous tail.
It forages in dense understory in flooded or seasonally flooded forest. The account notes that it can be hard to observe in this habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.