The Golden Tanager combines golden plumage with a black ear patch and chestnut throat. It forages in the canopy of montane forest on the eastern Andes.
Its back is blackish with golden streaks, while the rest of the body is golden. A large black ear patch and chestnut throat and upper breast stand out.
It forages in the canopy, both in family groups and in mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.