This small parakeet was studied in montane forests of southern Ecuador. Flocks use fruiting trees.
Adults have a gray-brown crown with a reddish-brown frontal band. The white collar merges into a yellowish breast, with a reddish-brown tinge on the belly and dull green flanks.
In the southern Ecuador study, flocks used fruiting trees and lianas in forest and at its edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.