This large grey bird lives in open woodland and acacia scrub in eastern Africa. Its face is bare of feathers, and the two subspecies differ in facial and body coloration.
Adults have bare skin across the front of the face and throat, with grey back and wings. The bare face is brown in subspecies personatus and black in leopoldi.
It remains in family groups for long periods and gives loud, nasal calls often rendered as go-ah. It may perch conspicuously on tree branches.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.