Green plumage and a yellow patch beside the ears identify this parrot. It uses cloud forest and wax-palm habitat in the Colombian Andes.
Its body is green, with a yellow patch behind the eye around the ear area.
In Colombian Andean forest it eats fruit, seeds, and flowers. Wax-palm forest is also part of its habitat, and the birds may gather in flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.