The Slate-colored Hawk lives in Amazonia. Adults are dark gray, with a red face and legs and a white tail band. It searches for prey in forests near water, and one observation records it catching a fish.
Adults are dark gray, with red cere, lores, eye area, and legs. The tail has a broad white band and a thin white terminal band. Juveniles resemble adults but have a white-barred belly.
At forested watersides it is reported to hunt from low exposed perches, taking frogs, snakes, fish, and crabs. In 2011, an individual was also observed catching a fish near the surface of a reservoir in Brazil.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.