Male Bare-necked Umbrellabirds have a black body, umbrella-shaped crest, and red bare throat. They use humid highland forest during breeding and lowland forest at other times, in Costa Rica and western Panama.
Males are mostly black, with an umbrella-shaped crest over the head and bill and bright red bare skin on the throat and neck. Females have a much smaller crest and a feathered neck.
It often perches quietly on a high branch; males are noisier during breeding. The species uses humid highland forest and foothills for breeding, then lowland forest outside the breeding season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.