Physical Description

• Length: 3.5 inches

• Long, straight, thin bill

• Medium-sized hummingbird

• Green back

• Gray underparts with greenish flanks

Classification

• Kingdom: Animalia

• Phylum: Chordata

• Class: Aves

• Order: Apodiformes

• Family: Trochilidae

• Genus: Calypte

• Species: Calypte anna

Adult male

• Rosy-red iridescent crown and gorget

• Entirely dark tail

Female/Immature

Green crown

• Gray chin and throat with variable amounts of thin dark streaking or rosy red spots depending on age and sex

• Dark tail with white tips on outer tail feathers