This cotinga inhabits lowland moist forest from the Guianas to northern Amazonia. Males are vivid crimson, while females and young birds have darker brown upperparts. It mainly eats fruit and is often solitary.
The male is vivid crimson with elongated feathers and dark wings and tail. Females and young birds have reddish heads, necks and underparts, with dark-brown backs, wings and tails.
It uses the canopy and mid-levels of lowland moist forest. Secondary natural-history notes say it mainly eats fruit and is often solitary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.