Males have sky-blue plumage with a dark purplish throat and belly; females are brown and scaly. The species inhabits lowland forest canopy from eastern Panama to northwestern Ecuador.
Males are sky blue with a dark purplish throat and belly and mostly black wings. Females are brown, scaly above and spotted below. Both sexes have a pale eye-ring and a short square tail.
It uses the canopy of lowland forest and foothill woodland, and may gather at fruiting trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.