The Altamira Oriole has a bright orange body and a contrasting black face. It weaves a long, hanging bag-shaped nest from a tree branch.
Adults have a bright orange body, a black face and chest pattern, white wing bars, and a long, thick bill.
It eats fruit, flower nectar, and insects. The female weaves a long, hanging bag nest from a branch; the birds also search foliage and sometimes the ground for food.
In the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, clutches in 30 nests examined during 2002–2003 contained two to six eggs.
In the same Texas study, seven nests were reused for a second clutch.
Second-year birds have plumage dominated by yellow, olive and brown, differing from the bright orange and black plumage of adults.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.