The White-winged Brush Finch is a medium-sized brushfinch of the western Andes of Ecuador and northern Peru. It has a black mask, olive back, golden crest, and white underparts.
It is a medium-sized finch with a black mask, dark olive back, golden crest, and white underparts. Small white spots occur above the bill and along the leading edge of the wings. The sexes look alike.
It uses lower growth and edges of montane forest on the western Andean slopes at about 1,000–2,600 m. It forages energetically for berries and seeds and often joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.