It occurs in Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. It feeds on insects and fruit along edges between open and closed forest and in riparian woodland.
A Tin Can Bay field guide describes an 18–21 cm black-and-white bird with a rufous undertail and a distinctive trilling call.
It eats insects and fruit; the local guide records it foraging in the outer foliage of trees.
The Tin Can Bay guide states that it builds a shallow saucer-shaped nest in a horizontal branch fork and lays one egg from September to January.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.