A brightly colored wetland bird with long legs and toes, it walks on floating plants while feeding in freshwater marshes from the southeastern United States southward.
Its plumage combines vivid red, blue, green, and other colors, and its long legs and toes stand out among marsh birds.
It steps across water lilies and other floating vegetation while hunting frogs and invertebrates, and it also picks at tubers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.