This bird inhabits evergreen and peat-swamp forests in Southeast Asian lowlands and hills. The cited page describes male plumage. Its diet is poorly known, and suggested insect prey is explicitly an inference.
The cited page gives a written description only for the male: 16–17 cm long, with a blue head, upperparts, and back. It shows a female photograph but gives no written description of female plumage.
It inhabits evergreen and peat-swamp forests in lowlands and hills. Its diet is not well recorded; the source presumes flies, insects, and wasps but does not present them as confirmed prey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.