The Yellow Cardinal is a yellow-and-black songbird, with different facial markings in males and females.
It has a pointed black crest. Males have yellow eyebrow and moustachial stripes; females have white stripes and grayish cheeks and breast.
It uses open woodland and tends to avoid grassland and heavily modified places. It forages on the ground in pairs or family groups.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.