This starling has glossy purple plumage and large yellow eyes. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects and roosts in large flocks outside the breeding season.
Its plumage is iridescent purple, with a greenish back and a very large yellow-orange eye. Young birds are duller than adults.
It feeds on fruit, nectar and insects. Outside breeding, it may roost in flocks of hundreds or thousands. It nests in tree holes.
In surveys at Kalakpa in Ghana, birds were seen coming to the figs of Ficus platyphylla at Kpetsu.
Both parents feed crushed insects to the chicks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.