The beauty of this bird brings together round and dark eyes that give it a peaceful air, an incipient plume crowning the head that ends with a small intense yellow beak and, above all, a spectacular shiny and colorful plumage in the male that it exhibits in the almost 42 centimeters of its body iridescent shades of red on the belly; orange, yellow, blue and emerald green in the rest of the body and in the spectacular tail with four feathers up to a meter long that reveals its sexual dimorphism.
The female is duller green and gray in color and lacks long tail feathers.