Breeding males are black with a white wing patch, while females, young birds, and males outside the breeding season are brown. It gathers in grasslands and shrubsteppe of the Great Plains.
Breeding males are black with a white wing patch. Females, young birds, and nonbreeding males are brown and streaked.
During the breeding season it uses grasslands and shrubsteppe across the Great Plains and may forage in flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.