This hummingbird uses tangled vegetation at forest edges and streams. It is usually solitary; males display at thickets near streams and other dense vegetation.
Its upperparts are bronze-green, with buff edges to the feathers, and the underparts are light cinnamon-rufous.
It is recorded in secondary growth, tangled vegetation beside streams, tall swamp grasses, and forest edges. Males display in thickets and along streams.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.