The Yellow-breasted Racket-tail has a yellow breast and racket-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It searches for food in the canopy of forests on Sulawesi and nearby islands, often in pairs or small groups.
Males have a yellow breast and yellow areas on the head, with racket-shaped tips on the central tail feathers. Females and young birds show less yellow.
It searches the forest canopy for fruit and seeds and is often seen in pairs or small groups. It may use tree cavities for nesting.
In 1997 at Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park on Sulawesi, one nest was in a cavity among the roots of a tree fern, and both parents fed the young.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.