This blue Andean bird has a large black mask around its red eyes. It lives in humid high-elevation forests and feeds on flower nectar, fruit, seeds, and insects.
Adults have a blue body and a large black mask around bright red eyes. The wings and tail are black with blue edges.
It lives mainly in humid evergreen mountain forest in the Andes, and also uses elfin forest, second growth, forest edges, and scrub. It pierces the bases of flowers to take nectar.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.