The Orange-breasted Bunting forages for seeds in dry scrub and rural areas on Mexico’s Pacific slope. Males show blue, green, orange, and yellow; females are grey-green and pale yellow.
Males have bright azure-blue upperparts, a green crown, and an orange breast fading to a yellow belly. Females are grey-green above and pale yellow below. Both sexes have a yellow eye-ring.
It lives on the Pacific slope of Mexico in dry brushy hillsides, open scrubby woods, woodland edges, hedgerows, and partial clearings. It is also seen around rural homes, foraging for seeds on the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.