This small hummingbird is found in Colombia's Santa Marta Mountains. Males have a green head, dark bluish upperparts, reddish gorget, and long deeply forked tail; females have buff underparts and a shorter rounded tail.
The male has a shiny green head, dark bluish upperparts, reddish gorget, gray breast, and a long deeply forked tail. The female has buff underparts, a dark eye stripe, a buff post-ocular stripe, and a short rounded tail.
It occupies montane forest edges, woodland, and shady coffee plantations. It may perch on bare branches high in a large tree while watching flowers in a neighboring tree, and feeds on nectar and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.