The Sira Tanager is known only from the Cerros del Sira mountains of central Peru. Males and females differ in plumage, and the species occurs in the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest.
The male has a black crown, nape, underparts and tail, with iridescent green on the mantle, rump and flanks. The female is green and yellow; both sexes have a bluish-green throat, more vivid in the male.
It uses the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest and occurs in pairs or mixed-species flocks. The account’s records are confined to the Cerros del Sira.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.