This bird-of-paradise is easy to notice by its grey back and white wing patch. It eats fruit and arthropods in forests of the North Moluccas.
Its head is glossy blackish brown, its back grey, and its wings reddish brown with a white patch visible when spread. The sexes have very similar colours.
It uses lowland, hill, and mid-montane forest and may also occur in agricultural land. It eats fruit and arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.