This cuckooshrike lives in woodland and forest across sub-Saharan Africa. The pool name Coracina pectoralis is listed as Ceblepyris pectoralis in the current species account.
Males have a gray head and throat with a white breast and belly. Females have a paler throat, and juveniles show marks on the underparts.
In miombo and mopane woodland it gleans caterpillars from trunks, branches and leaves; it is also reported in riverine forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.