It lives on the eastern side of the Colombian Andes, moving in small groups through dense vegetation at forest edges and in second growth. The cited source does not report its diet.
A 2024 preprint describes the typical southern form as olive-black on the face, crown and upperparts, with olive-yellow underparts including the chin and throat. Color grades through a putative contact zone with A. flaviceps.
In the Upper Magdalena basin, Andean and sub-Andean records include clearings, second growth, shrubby forest edges and shaded coffee. Small groups were observed moving through dense vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.