This flycatcher ranges from West Africa east to Uganda and northern Zambia. It catches flying insects around swamps and streams in humid lowland forest.
It is about 14 cm long, with a blue-grey back, black wings and tail, white underparts, and grey chest and flanks.
It inhabits swamps and fast, rocky forest streams in humid lowland forest, with records up to 1,800 m. It eats flying insects. Its grass nest is cup-shaped and placed close to the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.