The Plumbeous Hawk is a slate-colored raptor. Birds Colombia lists Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru, and describes it ambushing small vertebrates inside forest.
Its plumage is uniformly slate-colored.
In the Chocó region of the northern Andes, it is resident in humid lowland forest and foothills, where it waits on a perch and hunts small vertebrates in the forest interior.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.