This is a fairly small raptor at around 34cm. (13"). It looks more like a hawk than a kite and this may be a form of mimicry giving it some protection through looking like a fiercer type of bird.

Notable features are the grey head, red eye, greenish cere, white throat with dark stipe, rufous breast band with barring below, yellow legs and dark tail with 3 whitish bands and a white tip.

It is a bird of tropical forest found in South & Central America. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It feeds on lizards, insects, etc., and is often found close to troops of monkeys feeding on the small animals that the monkeys disturb as they move around the forest.

As its name implies, it does have a double "tooth" on the upper mandible which is not obvious except at close range.