This bowerbird lives in upland tropical rainforest of northeastern Queensland. A Paluma Range study recorded females building nests, incubating eggs, and feeding young.
Females have a larger bill than males, while adult males have longer tails than females.
Nests are deep cup structures placed in vertical crevices in tree trunks. Females incubate and feed the young; the documented nestling meals included fruit and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.