A bright green bird of lowland forest canopy and edges, the Philippine Leafbird is endemic to the Philippines. BirdLife reports recent confirmed records from Mindanao and Samar, while older records include two other islands.
It is bright green, with a paler face and chest and yellowish throat, eye-ring, and wing edge; the bill is brown.
It uses lowland and foothill forest canopy and edges, including primary and secondary forest and some degraded habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.