A bee-eater with a white throat and black-and-white striped head. It breeds along the southern edge of the Sahara and moves to humid forests in western and central Africa after breeding.
It has pale green upperparts, a black-and-white striped head, a white throat, a black upper-breast band, a red eye, and a black bill.
It breeds in sub-desert steppe along the southern edge of the Sahara and migrates to humid tropical rainforest in western and central Africa for the nonbreeding season. More open habitat gives it opportunities to forage for insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.