This tanager uses scrub and forest edges in South America. The PeruAves account reports solitary or paired foraging and describes several different Peruvian habitats.
PeruAves describes males with a blue head and wings and a mainly yellow body. Females are duller, while juveniles are greenish-brown above and yellow below.
It forages alone or in pairs in scrub and along forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.