The Whiskered Flowerpecker occurs in forest on Mindanao. The sexes are similar, with blue-black upperparts and moustachial stripes, white chin and malar stripes, and sepia-brown underparts.
The sexes are similar. It has blue-black upperparts and moustachial stripes, white chin and malar stripes, and sepia-brown remaining underparts.
A Busa Mountain survey describes it in primary and secondary forest at 800–900 m. It was uncommon to locally common along forest edges and recorded at only Tambusong among the survey sites.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.