The Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush lives in Central American cloud forests. Its dark face and throat, yellow-orange eye-ring, and spotted pale underparts are useful identification marks.
Adults have a sooty-dark face and throat, ringed by a narrow yellow-orange eye-ring. The upperparts are olive to gray, and the pale yellow chest and belly carry dark spots. Females look similar but are browner above.
It inhabits evergreen cloud forest in the tropical mountains of Central America. The source places its Central American habitat at about 1,200–3,000 metres.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.