The Blue-winged Minla is a babbler with blue wings and a blue-gray head that moves in flocks through forest undergrowth.
The sexes have the same colors. The blue-gray crown and forehead, blue wings with whitish tips, and a narrow white tail band are distinctive.
It usually forages in flocks of about 5–15, moving through the tops of shrubs and small trees. It uses the shrub layer in deciduous and mixed forests.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.