Males are red with a black face and wings marked by two white bars. Females are yellow-green and forage in trees, in pairs or mixed-species flocks.
Males have a scarlet head and body, black facial mask, black wings and tail, and two white wing bars. Females have similar wings and tail but a yellow or yellow-green body.
It forages in pairs or small groups at middle to high levels in trees and often joins mixed-species flocks. Its cup-shaped nest is placed at mid-height in trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.