The male Yellow-billed Cotinga is white with a pale blue-gray crown and yellow bill; the female has grayish upperparts and dark wings and tail. It eats fruit around Pacific-coast mangroves in Central America.
Adult males are white with pale blue-gray on the crown and back. The bill is yellow; females have grayish upperparts and dark wings and tail.
It feeds mainly on fruit in coastal mangroves and nearby trees. A movement outside the breeding season described as probable in the source is not stated as established fact.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.