The head is rufous, paling toward the neck, and the back is blue-grey. It has a long, downcurved bill and occurs in flocks in highland wetlands and open grassland.
The crown is rufous, fading to buff at the neck; the upperparts are blue-gray, the breast pale, and the belly black. It has short red legs and a long decurved bill.
It is seen in flocks around muddy wetland edges and in highland wet or semi-wet grassland and fields.
It lacks the dark throat wattle of the Black-faced Ibis and has more uniformly blue-grey upperparts.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.