A starling with a disjunct range across islands of Indonesia and the Philippines. Adults have glossy green plumage and red eyes.
Adults are glossy greenish, with red eyes; the head has a purplish gloss and the body a green gloss.
It occurs in forest and forest edge; eBird notes that it avoids large urban areas.
It occurs mainly in lowlands and foothills, but is montane or submontane on Java and Mindanao.
Juveniles are brown above and streaked with white below.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.