This is Africa's smallest raptor, only 19-20 cm long, considerably less than, say, a blackbird. It is exceptionally rich in varied colors with warm brown back, white face, white rump, black elements in the tail and wing feathers, gray on the head and the wings and a bright red color around the eyes and the beak. It feeds on insects, small mammals and small reptiles. The Pygmy falcon sometimes live in polyandrous relationships where a female has two or more males.