Adults have a red forehead, yellow bill, and pinkish or silvery streaks on the throat and breast. The bird uses forest undergrowth, and an adult was photographed near a nest excavated in a dead tree in Uganda.
Adults have a dull red forehead and front of the crown, a yellow bill, and pinkish or silvery streaks across the throat and breast. The belly is yellow with fine black lines.
It uses dense undergrowth in lowland forest, mature secondary forest, and riverine forest. Its reported foods include ants, termites, snails, and fruit. A photo record from Uganda shows an adult near a nest excavated in a dead tree.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.