The Saffron-headed Parrot has a green body, yellow head and throat, and red feathers on parts of the wings. Small groups fly and call in the canopy of humid forest.
Adults are mostly green, with a yellow head and throat, an olive neck and upper breast, and red feathers on parts of the wings and sides.
It lives in humid lowland and lower montane forest. Small groups fly through the treetops or lower down, calling loudly.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.