 It migrates in November from New Guinea to its breeding grounds in the rainforest of North Queensland, Australia.Like all paradise kingfishers, this bird has colourful plumage with a red bill, buff breast and distinctive long tail streamers.The buff-breasted paradise kingfisher was first described by the English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould in 1850 as "Tanysiptera sylvia" from specimens supplied by the naturalist John MacGillivray which had been collect on the Cape York Peninsula in Australia.