This raptor ambushes prey from cover in forest. Its dark head and back contrast with a pale belly and black-and-white tail.
The head and back are dark, while the breast and belly are pale. Two bands cross the neck, the long tail is barred black and white, and the legs are yellow.
It uses forest edges, thickets, and swamp forest, hiding on a perch to ambush prey. Its food includes reptiles, small mammals, birds, and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.