This Australian robin lives in lightly timbered woodland. It uses exposed perches and drops to the ground or nearby to catch arthropods, mainly insects.
Adult males have a black hood and back, white underparts, and white shoulder and wing bars. Females are greyer, with a brown-grey head and dark brown wings. Juveniles are dark brown with off-white speckling.
It occurs in lightly timbered woodland, mainly with acacias and/or eucalypts. From exposed perches such as dead branches and stumps, it pounces on arthropods, mainly insects, on or near the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.