It is found in the highlands of Sri Lanka in jungle or other dense forest near water.

It is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, frogs, earthworms and berries.

It lays one or two eggs in a neat cup-shaped nest in a bush or on a ledge near water.

This is a notoriously difficult species to see, even when the males are singing in the breeding season, which starts in February.

Perhaps the best chance is at dawn at Horton Plains National Park 2000m up in the highlands of Sri Lanka and a site near the Haggala Botanical Gardens close to Nuwara Eliya town.