Adult males have iridescent green faces and breasts with white flank plumes, unlike females. The species feeds on fruit and arthropods in hill and lower montane forest on the Huon Peninsula.
Adult males have iridescent green faces and breasts and white flank plumes; females have dark brown head and breast plumage.
It feeds mostly on fruit, with arthropods also in its diet, in hill and lower montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.