Characterization: A medium-sized species measuring about 37cm in length and 85cm in wingspan. With a color ranging from brown to gray, with a compact black pattern on its chest and amber irises.

Distribution: From Costa Rica to Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay, and throughout Brazil, sometimes in cities (Rio de Janeiro).

Habitat: Edges of forests, fields with trees and savannas.

Habits: This is a nocturnal, solitary species, never landing on the ground and remaining erect when landing on stumps and branches. If not disturbed during the day, they stretch even more and raise their heads until their beaks face vertically upwards and their tails touch the trunk of the tree; by doing so they are confused for a dry twig, a stake, etc.

Diet: Carnivorous, feeding on insects, especially moths and beetles, which can be captured in flight.

Breeding: This bird lays an egg in a natural hollow of the tip of a broken tree branch or trunk, a few meters above the ground. The egg is hatched upright. It also takes on the vertical position when the adult covers the little hatchling. The hatchling will also position itself this way when it is alone on the branch and notices some movement near its tree.

In the UFRA area: In the studies done at the São Francisco Sugarmill areas, this bird's spatial distribution was limited to drainage ditches with native forests. It is considered rare because it was only seen twice.