This small kingfisher lives along forest streams and ponds. Its dark blue back has a silvery-blue stripe, with white throat and belly markings and bright red legs.
It is small and mostly dark blue, slightly paler below, with white on the throat, belly, cheek, and behind the nostril. A silvery-blue stripe runs along the back to the tail, and the legs are bright red.
It uses forested lowland and foothill streams and ponds on Mindanao and neighboring islands. Its high-pitched call is often given in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.