Male Satin Flycatchers are blue-black and white; females combine bluish grey, rusty red, and white. They breed in southeastern Australia and move north for the non-breeding season.
Males are glossy blue-black on the head, upperparts, and upper breast, with clean white lower breast and belly and a sharp boundary. Females have bluish-grey upperparts, rusty-red chin, throat, and upper breast, sharply set off from the white lower breast and belly. Both sexes can raise a small crest at the back of the head.
It hunts from perches high in the canopy and sub-canopy, flying out to catch insects in mid-air or picking them from branches and foliage. It is usually seen alone or in pairs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.