[2][3] The specific epithet was chosen to honour the German collector and museum director Gottlieb von Koch (1849–1914).

As a newly split species, not much is known about this species itself but based on information about the Bar-bellied cuckooshrike it is also pressumed to mainly eats insects, including caterpillars, mantises, and dragonflies, and figs.

Nest described as a shallow cup of moss, leaves, roots and mud around 20 meters above the ground.

[6] Its natural habitat is tropical moist lownland and montane forests up to 2,000 meters above sea level.

The most affected part of its range is Bohol which only has 4% forest cover remaining.