It is endemic to western Mexico, with an estimated distribution size of 539,000 km2[2] Due to this very large range, the IUCN consider it a species of Least Concern and that the current population trend is stable.

Most insects are eaten, including flying species, which they catch whilst they hover momentarily at the end of a long upward or outward dart.

There is wide range to their animal prey, including dragonflies; mantises, grasshoppers and other orthopterans; big caterpillars, both hairy and hairless; and many smaller insects.

[7] They also eat the orange coloured pulp of the Central American rubber tree (Castilla elastica) and the green fruiting catkins of cecropia.

Adult males have a uniform gray head and upper breast and a metallic green mantle, fading to a violet-blue rump.