[2] Ebird describes it as "A medium-sized bird of lowland forest canopy and edge on Palawan and neighboring islands.

Overall bright green, paler below, with a yellow throat and upper chest and a blue eye-ring, shoulder, edge to the wing, and short line down from the base of the bill.

Differs from others by its deeper and darker bill, longer tail, dark lores and its striking eyering, gray breast and throat and yellower wing edges.

However, Palawan's forests are under threat due to illegal logging, deforestation, land conversion and mining.

The whole of Palawan was designated as a Biosphere Reserve; however, protection and enforcement of laws has been difficult and these threats still continue.