The Stripe-tailed Hummingbird lives in Central American mountains and feeds by darting among flowers. White stripes show when it spreads its tail.
Males are bright green, while females have pale gray underparts. Both sexes have a chestnut wing panel, and white stripes show on the spread tail.
It lives on mountain slopes in evergreen forest and shade coffee plantations, feeding at flowers from low to middle levels.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.