Somewhat similar to Asian Glassy Starling or Blackish Cuckooshrike, but Philippine Fairy Bluebird has distinctive blue patterning on the upperparts.

Most remaining lowland forest that is not afforded protection leaving it vulnerable to both legal and Illegal logging, conversion into farmlands through Slash-and-burn agriculture and mining.

[4] Conservation actions proposed are further surveys to better understand distribution and population status in remaining habitat.

It is believed to be a messenger of Bathala, the supreme creator god of precolonial, indigenous Tagalog religion.

According to legend, Bathala ordered a tigmamanukan bird to crack in open a bamboo stalk from which came Malakas and Maganda, the first humans.

In another legend, Bathala also sends the tigmamanukan bird (sometimes in the forms of a snake or lizard) to aid humans if they need to proceed or stop a journey.

If a traveler sees a tigmamanukan omen passing from right to left, it is “labay" or divine approval to proceed with the journey.