This bird uses the high canopy of humid Central American forests and mainly eats fruit. Males have three long wattles around the bill.
Males are white from the head over the upper back and breast, with red-brown elsewhere and three black wattles: one at each corner of the mouth and one at the bill base. Females are olive above and greenish-yellow below, with olive streaks.
It mainly eats fruit in the middle and upper canopy of old-growth and older secondary forest. It breeds in montane forest and moves to lower elevations afterward; following fruit availability is presented as a likely explanation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.