This large cotinga lives in humid lowland forests of northern South America, including the Amazon Basin. Males have silvery-gray wings and bare blue skin below the face and on the neck.
Adult males are mostly black with much of the wings silvery gray. Females are smaller and mostly slate gray with a faint paler scaly pattern. Both sexes have bare blue or bluish-white skin on the lower face and neck, with deeper folds in males.
Fruit is the main food, with insects also eaten. It forages alone, in pairs, or in flocks, often walking or hopping along branches; small flocks may be seen along rivers. The source does not resolve whether those river movements are seasonal.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.