Males are smaller and greyer, while females are larger and mainly brown. It flies low over coastal and inland wetlands in search of prey and ranges from eastern to southern Africa.
Females are larger than males on average, while males are smaller with more grey in the flight feathers. The upperparts are dark brown and the paler underparts are streaked white and brown.
It quarters low over wetlands and flashes into vegetation to catch small mammals and birds. Adult breeding birds are largely sedentary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.