Description

Colour Adult:

Male-olive/yellow crown and upperparts; deep blue frontal band, bordered above by paler blue thin line going above and behind the eye; yellow face and throat; olive/yellow breast; yellow lower underparts and underside of tail, sometimes washed with orange on centre of abdomen; light blue outer median wing coverts; yellow/olive inner lesser and median wing coverts. Bill grey/black. Eye dark brown.  Female-in general duller than male; orange usually absent on abdomen.

Colour Juvenile:

As in adults but frontal band minimal or absent; pale olive outer wing coverts, faintly margined with pale blue; in some females pale coloured underwing band obvious, but in general minimal in both sexes. Bill yellow/brown.

Call:

In flight calls are a sharp or a somewhat weak whistling note. Silent or softly twittering while feeding.