A large hummingbird recorded in Costa Rica’s northern Pacific region. Males have a red-orange iridescent gorget and a white stripe along the middle of the rump.
Males have a bronze-green and dusky crown, a white postocular and malar stripe, an iridescent pink-red to orange gorget and a white stripe down the centre of the rump. Females have a darker chin and buff gorget edges; juveniles have an entirely dusky gorget.
It occurs in dry-forest canopy and edges, gallery forest, old second growth, coffee and banana plantations and wooded savanna. It may forage alone and defend trees rich in flowers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.