Adults have a bare red head and soar with raised wings in a teetering flight. They use their sense of smell to find carrion.
Adults have a dark brown body and a bare red head; the undersides of the broad flight feathers are paler.
It cruises over open areas such as farmland and roadsides, using its sense of smell to find mostly mammal carrion. It is known for teetering as it glides with its wings slightly raised.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.