In Peru's far north-west, it is rare along the edges of humid and semi-deciduous forest in Tumbes. The male's blue and orange-yellow plumage is distinctive.
The male is glossy blue above and below is orange-yellow; its throat is blue and its yellow crown extends nearly to the nape. The wings and tail are dark.
It forages in semi-open places and along forest edges. In Tumbes, Peru, it is rare at the edges of humid and semi-deciduous forest.
In the Pialapi Valley of south-western Colombia on 30 April 1997, a female collected dry roots and bamboo leaves for a nest at a forest edge.
In the same valley in April 1998, a globular grass-and-moss nest with a side entrance lay among epiphytes near a trunk. The male sang from a nearby branch.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.