This fantail is endemic to the Philippines. It searches for insects in lowland woodland, coastal vegetation, and green spaces in towns.
It is sooty gray above and white below, with a black chest band, white eyebrow and throat, and a long tail with white tips.
It uses open lowland woodland, coastal vegetation, and vegetated urban areas, where it catches insects. A specialist account also describes it fanning its long tail.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.