Males have a black head and breast, a yellow nape band, and an olive back. Females are duller, and the yellow on their underparts varies among subspecies.
Males have black across the head, nape, and breast, with a yellow band around the back of the neck and an olive-green back. Females have a grey-brown back; yellow on the breast and belly varies by subspecies.
It mainly eats insects, and also takes spiders and small crabs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.