The Black Berrypecker lives in forests on New Guinea. Adult males are glossy blue-black, while females are olive-colored. It eats small berries as well as insects and spiders.
Adult males have glossy blue-black upperparts and white pectoral tufts. Females have dull olive-green upperparts and olive-grey underparts.
It feeds on small berries in lowland and hill forest and tall secondary growth on New Guinea. It also takes insects and spiders; males may forage higher than females.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.