The Pirre Bush Tanager inhabits humid mountain forest from eastern Panama into north-western Colombia. Grey and olive upperparts contrast with yellowish underparts.
It is about 15 cm long, and the sexes are similar. The crown and face are dark grey, upperparts olive, throat yellowish white, flanks olive-yellow and belly yellow.
It travels in groups of about three to six and may join mixed-species flocks. It eats fruit and small arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.