The eight-inch lizard has “wings,” folds of skin on elongated ribs, which the lizard grabs with its forelimbs. This allows it to fly up to 100 feet between trees, eluding predators on the ground.

A perch-hunter of the forest understory, it feeds on frogs, snakes, lizards, and small mammals ... A medium-size buteo with rounded wing tips that do not reach the tip of the tail.