The Wattled Broadbill is a resident bird of Mindanao and nearby Philippine islands. Males have a purplish back, rusty tail, pink underparts, and a pale blue wattle around the eye; females have white underparts.
Adult males have a dark burgundy head and back, a white frontal patch, a pale blue wattle around the eye, a bright rusty tail, and pink underparts. The female's underparts are white.
It forages in the lower and middle levels of rainforest, alone, in pairs, or in small groups of up to about six. It catches insects from foliage and sometimes sallies from a perch to catch them in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.