This forest bird is endemic to Palau. It occurs across the islands' forests and is especially numerous in mangroves in the cited field guide.
Adult males are blue-gray above, with rufous-orange underparts, forehead, and eye ring. Females are similar but browner above and paler below.
It uses several forest types, especially mangroves, and catches insects. In a 1945 survey of southern Palau, birds were seen in dense understory and second-growth scrub; stomachs contained insect fragments.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.