Breeding adults show triangular black, white, and gray wing patches, a dark head, and a red eye ring; they feed in Arctic wetlands.
Breeding adults have a gray head edged in black and triangular black, white, and gray wing patches. The eye ring is red and the bill tip is yellow.
On breeding grounds in North America and Siberia, it stays near pools and wetlands and picks small insects from shallow water and vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.