EBird describes this as "A dark thrush with a slightly paler head, and orange bill, eyering, legs, and feet.

Found at high elevations in Mindanao and Negros in the Philippines, where it is more common than many of the former Island Thrush complex.

The Island thrush species complex has a varied and generalist diet taking a range of invertebrates such as insects including beetles, spiders, snails, earthworms, as well as carrion and even small reptiles.

It is observed foraging on leaf litter and low branches in dense cover, clearings and even roads.

Breeding season is believed to be April to May but birds with enlarged gonads have been collected from February to October.

The Island thrush species complex makes cup shaped nests of grass, roots, tendrils, twigs, bark and moss.