This jay ranges through the Andes from southwestern Colombia, across Ecuador, to northern Peru. It has a black face and turquoise-blue plumage and forages in small flocks in the forest canopy and subcanopy.
The forehead, lores, and sides of the head are black. The crown, nape, and throat are pale turquoise-blue, with a narrow black collar at the upper breast and cerulean-blue plumage elsewhere. The sexes are similar; juveniles are duller.
It forages in small flocks in the canopy and subcanopy of humid cloud forest. The account describes it as sedentary.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.