The Golden-breasted Bunting is known for its yellow-to-golden breast and black-and-white head pattern. Males are brighter, while females have more brown in the head and back.
Adult males have a black head with white stripes, a chestnut back, and an orange-to-yellow breast. Females are duller, with brown suffusing the dark head markings.
It forages on the ground and in shrubs or small trees. Its food includes seeds and flower buds as well as small insects such as grasshoppers, beetles, termites, and ants.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.