The male is leaden blue-gray, while the female has a rusty throat and breast. The species occurs in woodland and along waterways in eastern Australia.
The male has blue-gray plumage on the head, back, and chest. The female has a blue-gray head and back, an orange-rufous throat and upper breast, and white lower parts.
On the Gold Coast it occurs in open woodland, riparian forest, mangroves and farmland.
Near Armidale in 1993–1994, both sexes brought bark, spider web and grass to build the nest.
Near Armidale, both sexes shared daytime incubation and feeding nestlings, while females incubated eggs and brooded small chicks at night.
After feeding, adults swallow or carry away the chicks’ faecal sacs. Near Armidale, sacs were mostly swallowed early in the nestling period and carried away later.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.