This cuckooshrike lives in the humid forests and mangroves of parts of Southeast Asia. Males are grey, while females show bars on the underparts.
The male has dark grey plumage, a black eye-ring and black lores. The female is barred below, but her throat and upper breast are plain.
It uses moist lowland and mangrove forests and their edges. Its diet includes insects such as butterflies, moths, beetles, mantids and dragonflies.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.