The Orange-sided Thrush has a tiger-striped face and orange on the sides of the breast. In the eastern Lesser Sundas, it searches forest and wooded patches alone or in pairs.
Adults have a tiger-striped face, a white throat, an orange breast-side band, and white markings on the belly and wings.
It forages on the ground and in trees in lowland and foothill forest or wooded patches, alone or in pairs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.