This bushshrike has a black upper body and white underparts. Pairs live in thickets beside rivers and wetlands and feed mainly on invertebrates.
Adults have black upperparts with a white wing bar and pure-white underparts.
It usually lives in pairs in waterside thickets and swamps. It eats insects and fruit, occasionally frogs, and forages in vegetation and on the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.