A brown bird with a black head and a yellow bare patch behind the eye. In Singapore, it is an introduced resident of urban areas.
It has a warm brown body, black head and bare yellow skin behind the eye. White wing patches show clearly in flight.
In Singapore, it forages on the ground for insects, worms and discarded food, and nests in tree hollows or crevices in buildings.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.