This bird has a blue-green body, russet crown, and black facial mask. While perched quietly, it often swings its tail from side to side.
The body is blue-green, with a bright rusty crown. The black mask has violet highlights, and the tail feathers end in bare-shaft rackets.
It lives in dry forest, woodland, and semi-open areas with trees in western Mexico. It often waits quietly on a perch and swings its tail.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.