Adult males shimmer green, blue, and copper, while females are dark brown. This bird of paradise feeds mainly on fruit in New Guinea's mountain forests.
Adult males have an iridescent yellow-green crown and back, a metallic blue-green throat, and a copper-red breast patch. Females are dark brown with a slight blue-green gloss on the head.
It eats mostly fruit, along with arthropods, frogs, and lizards.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.