It has a bluish-grey head and back with an orange-rufous throat and chest. Birds in northern Australia use wet tropical forest and mangroves.
The head is bluish dark grey, the throat and chest orange-rufous, and the belly off-white. It has inconspicuous light-grey eye-rings, a small crest, a broad bluish-black bill, dark-brown irises, and dark-grey legs and feet. Females are somewhat duller than males, while juveniles retain rufous-brown flight feathers.
It prefers wet tropical forest and mangroves. The Australian account covers race mimikae, the only race it reports in Australia, including records from northern wetlands and mangroves. The page describes the species as solitary, territorial, and sedentary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.