Adults are dark, shiny green and violet above with clear white below. Note the white patches on rump near tail.
Males have white on the face which encircles the eye with a green and violet head.
They do not have white encircling the eye area. Their coloring is generally a steel blue-green above. Winters in California, Mexico and central America. Built with straw, dry grasses and heavily lined with feathers. Oval, white with no markings.