In addition there are two long black central tail feathers which can reach a length of 30 cm.

It lives in the Veuve Nature Reserve on La Digue, Seychelles, where it inhabits dense Calophyllum forests.

The oval bowl-shaped nest is built on branches and consists of twigs, palm fibre, and spider webs.

Both parents, male and female, take care of the little bird until it grows up and each of them provides it with food, mainly in the form of flies for which it got its name.

Numbers of birds are thought to be in the low hundreds, and in an effort to improve its long-term hopes of survival, it has been introduced to Denis Island where there are no mammalian predators.