Their breast is olive-yellow, their belly green with some blue edges to the feathers, and their lower thighs yellow.

Immature birds have green feathered heads with yellowish around the lores and eye and without the adult's yellow collar.

It inhabits both fairly dry terra firme and seasonally flooded várzea forests.

[9] Little is known about the vulturine parrot's foraging behavior or diet, but it is suspected that the bare head is an adaptation to avoid feather-matting from large sticky fruits.

"The primary threat to this species is accelerating deforestation in the Amazon basin as land is cleared for cattle ranching and soy production, facilitated by expansion of the road network.