The Black Shama is a Cebu Island bird with glossy black plumage and a long tail.
The male has a blue sheen on its black plumage and a long, graduated tail. The smaller female is dark grey; juveniles are greyer with browner wings.
It eats insects, particularly beetles, and uses forest, dense thickets, bamboo groves, scrub, and plantations.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.