The Gray-bellied Hawk is a large forest hawk. Adults are dark above and pale below.
Adults are dark above and pale below, with white visible on the undersides of the wings in flight. The male has a gray face, the female a blackish face, and juveniles show orange on the nape and breast.
It mainly uses extensive forest, though it is also recorded along forest edges and in some non-forest places.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.