It is one of the most striking birds in the country with its sky-blue wattle and bill and yellow wing patch.

Described as a distinctive broadbill with prominent sky blue wattles, a maroon crown and tail, white collar, black head and wings with a priminent white band on the tertials and a yellow band on the secondaries.

These birds are insectivorous where they forage in the middle and lower levels of the forest floor.

Most remaining lowland forest that is not afforded protection leaving it vulnerable to both legal and Illegal logging, conversion into farmlands through Slash-and-burn and mining.

Conservation actions proposed include to survey remaining habitat to establish its current distribution, population status and ecology.