A long-tailed bird of humid forests in West and Central Africa, with a slender bill.
It is long-tailed with a slender bill. Birds in the western range have a brown hood. Eastern males can have glossy green, brown, or whitish heads; females can have brown or whitish heads.
It lives in humid forest, including primary forest edges and secondary growth. It probes bark for invertebrates and is seen in pairs or small groups.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.