This oriole occurs from southern Mexico through Guatemala and El Salvador to Honduras. Its listed habitats include oak-pine scrub, moist montane areas, coffee plantations, and open places.
Males have a black head, upper breast, back, and wings, with a yellow rump and underparts and a yellow shoulder patch.
Its diet is not well recorded in the account; insects, fruit, and nectar are listed.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.