Males stand out with their blue-black feathers contrasting their white bellies, and the females with their bright orange throats.

[3] The satin flycatcher is a member of the Monarchidae family,[4] or the Monarchs, which contains around 100 small, passerine, insectivorous birds.

[5] The genus Myiagra is distinct from other members of the Monarchidae family by their obvious sexual dimorphism, egg patterns, and unpatterned crests.

[2] The Myiagra genus are mainly distributed in the Australasia region, existing almost exclusively in Australia, New Zealand, and other pacific islands.

The species has sexually dimorphic characteristics; the male birds are a glossy black-blue colour, with a white belly and small crest upon their head, while the females are a dusty brown-grey colour with a bright orange chest and throat, and a white belly.

[9] They lay two to three greenish blue with brown spotted eggs in a neat nest made of bark, spider's web and moss.