The Rufous-sided Broadbill is a small bird of western and central African forests. Males show broken white wing-bars and a bright orange patch on the side of the breast.
It is about 11.5–13.5 cm long. Males have a black head, rufescent-brown upperparts with black markings, broken white wing-bars, and a bright orange breast-side patch. Females are rufous-brown above.
It eats insects and other arthropods, often catching flying insects 3–15 m above the ground. Its bag-shaped nest is made of leaves and plant fibres and hangs from a branch.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.