This hummingbird occurs in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. The male has a glittering greenish-blue forehead and visits flowers for nectar.
The male has a glittering greenish-blue forehead. Its bill is straight, with a black upper mandible, an orange lower mandible, and a dark tip.
It uses submontane forest, forest edges, clearings, and scrub. Nectar is its main food, and it sometimes visits a sequence of flowers along a feeding route.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.