This jay has a blue-green body, a black facial pattern, and a white collar. It moves in small groups and forages at different forest levels in the humid Andes.
The body is blue-green, with a black facial pattern and a white collar.
Groups of up to about eight forage from the canopy to lower forest levels. The species is omnivorous and has also been recorded raiding other birds' nests.
In Bolivia, it sometimes joins mixed flocks with mountain tanagers and mountain caciques.
The nominate subspecies has a relatively long, graduated tail, a black bill and legs, and dark-brown irises.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.