Males have black heads and throats against yellow bodies, while females have brown upperparts and yellow underparts. The species lives in humid Central American forest and sallies to catch insects.
Males have black heads, throats, wings, and tails, with yellow elsewhere. Females have grey heads, tawny-brown upperparts, rufous tails, and yellow underparts.
It inhabits humid low- to mid-elevation forest and sallies from a perch to catch insects. It is seen in pairs and mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.