This flycatcher lives in East African mountain forests and their edges. Active by day, it catches small invertebrates in short aerial sallies.
It is about 15 cm long. Adults are slate-grey, with a conspicuous pale eye-ring; males and females are similar.
It uses open forest and forest edges at about 1,400–2,500 m, sallying out to catch invertebrates in the air.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.