This oriole ranges across northern South America. Males are yellow with black wings and face markings; females are duller. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects.
Males are bright yellow with black wings, a black eye mask and narrow throat line, a black tail, and a white wing bar. Females are similar but duller; juveniles lack black on the face. Subspecies vary slightly in color and size.
It uses woodland, scrub, arid thorn vegetation, mangrove areas, gardens, and parks. It eats fruit, nectar, and insects; when feeding on nectar it pierces the base of a flower.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.