The White-winged Grosbeak is a highland bird with a dark head and a conspicuous white wing patch. In Yunnan, China, it uses coniferous and mixed forests and feeds mainly on plant seeds.
The male has a black head, throat, and breast, dark yellow-green back and belly, and a large white patch on the black wing. The female is similar but has dark gray-brown on the front of the body where the male is black.
It uses high-elevation forest and scrub, especially coniferous and mixed conifer-broadleaf forest. It is often seen in pairs and eats mainly plant seeds, with some insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.