This small hummingbird lives in mountains and valleys from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The male has a very long forked tail; the female’s is shorter.
The male has a green head and back, a pinkish-purple throat, and a very long forked tail. The female is green above and cinnamon-buff below, with a shorter, less forked tail.
It takes nectar and small arthropods in forest openings, woodland, second growth, and scrub, often in lower vegetation. It is described as sedentary; breeding was recorded in October in Chiapas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.