[3] The species' English name and specific epithet honor Louis Agassiz Fuertes, "one of the 'greats' of American bird art".

Adults have a thin red band just above the bill, an olive-yellow forecrown and face, a blue crown, and a green hindneck.

Their bill is horn-colored with a darker base to the mandible, their eyes yellowish, and their legs and feet dark gray.

[5] Fuertes's parrot is found only on the west slope of Colombia's Central Andes in the departments of Quindío and Risaralda.

Fuertes's parrot inhabits wet temperate cloudforest characterized by many epiphytes and oaks (Quercus).

[5] Extensive studies of the breeding biology of Fuertes's parrot have been conducted in concert with efforts to increase the species' population.

About 50% of its original habitat has been cleared and deforestation continues outside the refuges, though at a slower pace than in the past.