The Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike lives in forests and at forest edges in Southeast Asia. Males are black and white, while females have browner upperparts.
Males are black above and white below. Females have browner upperparts, and juveniles resemble females with a brown wash.
It is recorded in evergreen forest and at forest edges, as well as freshwater swamp forest and mangroves.
It makes short flights to catch prey in the air, returning to the same exposed perch.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.