Adults are black and white with a blue bare eye-ring. The male has a broad black breast band below the white throat; in the female the band is narrower and browner. It takes insects from trunks and vines in rainforests of north-eastern Queensland, Australia.
Adults have sharply contrasting black-and-white plumage and pale-blue bare skin around the eye. The male's breast band is broad and black; the female's is narrower and duller brown.
It lives in lowland to middle-elevation tropical rainforest, spiralling up trunks and thick vines as it prises insects and spiders from under the bark.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.