This bird ranges from the Moluccas to western New Guinea. Its white throat and grey-brown back are useful field marks, and it eats insects in coastal scrub and similar habitats.
Adults have a grey-brown head, back, and tail, a white throat, and grey-ochre breast and flanks.
It uses coastal scrub, secondary scrub, and mangroves, where it feeds on insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.