Adults have a reddish-brown body with black markings and search for prey from perches in open, dry country.
Adults are light ginger-brown with black bars and markings on the breast, belly, and back. The sexes have similar plumage, and adults have pale eyes.
It often hunts from a perch and catches prey on the ground, but may also hover into the wind. Its prey includes locusts and grasshoppers, reptiles, small birds, and rodents.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.