The Plumbeous Redstart lives beside fast rivers and streams. Males are blue-grey with an orange tail; females and young birds are grey with scaly markings.
Males are dark slate-blue-grey with a bright orange tail. Females and juveniles are grey, have scaly underparts, and show white on the upper surface of the tail.
It lives by fast-flowing rivers and streams and is also seen around dams, levees, and canals.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.