Male White-crowned Manakins are black with a white crown; females and young males are greenish. In wet-forest understory they take fruit and insects from foliage in flight.
The male is mostly black with a white crown that can be raised into a low crest. Females and young males are olive green with gray on the head and throat.
It inhabits wet-forest understory and feeds low in trees, plucking fruit and some insects from foliage while in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.