A slender bird of prey whose plumage differs by sex and age: adult males are gray, while females and juveniles are mostly brown.
Adult males are dark gray, with a pale belly and black wing tips. Females are larger and heavier, brown, and have a dark eye stripe edged with pale feathers. Juveniles resemble females in color.
It eats small birds, reptiles, large insects, and small rodents. It breeds in Europe and winters in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.