Coppery metaltail
Description
Description
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The coppery metaltail is  long and weighs about . It has a medium length, straight, black bill. The adult male of the nominate subspecies has reddish bronze to reddish coppery upperparts with a greenish tone to the rump and uppertail [coverts](/wiki/Covert_feather "Covert feather"). Its slightly forked tail is bronze green with violet reflections on its upper side and shining bronze green on its underside. The sides of its head and neck are reddish bronze and its narrow [gorget](/wiki/Gorget_%28bird%29 "Gorget (bird)") is glittering golden green. The rest of its underparts are a somewhat less reddish bronze green than the upperparts. The adult female is a duller version of the male and its gorget is smaller. Juveniles do not have gorget. Subspecies *M. t. parkeri* is similar to the nominate but its uppersides are not as reddish and the underside of its tail is a brighter golden green.Schulenberg, T. S. (2020\). Coppery Metaltail (*Metallura theresiae*), version 1\.0\. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. [https://doi.org/10\.2173/bow.copmet1\.01](https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.copmet1.01) retrieved March 5, 2022


Is the coppery metaltail's tail forked?