Adult male Australian Golden Whistlers have a yellow belly and black head, while females have a grayish back. They search lower and middle tree levels for insects and spiders and also eat berries.
Adult males are bright yellow below, with olive-green backs and wings, a black head, and a bright yellow collar. A broad black band separates the white throat from the yellow chest. Females are grayer above and paler gray below with a buff wash.
It usually feeds alone in the lower or middle levels of trees, picking insects, spiders, and other small arthropods from leaves and bark. It also eats berries.
Both sexes build the nest, a shallow bowl of twigs, grass and bark bound with spider web and lined with finer grass.
The male has a black bill and legs; the female has a dark brown bill and grey-brown legs. Adults of both sexes have red-brown eyes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.