This honeycreeper ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil and Trinidad. It takes nectar and fruit and forages in forest canopies and edges.
Adult males are blue-green with a black head and yellow bill. Females are pale grass-green and lack the black head.
It eats fruit, seeds, nectar and insects. It forages in the canopy and has been recorded alone, in pairs and in mixed flocks.
The guide reports nesting in forest canopies and edges, as well as in gardens.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.