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Hummingbirds

Black-throated Mango

Anthracothorax nigricollis

• uncommon
• 51 km/h
• Least Concern

Hovers motionless at flowers from Panama to Bolivia. Male carries a glittering black throat bordered in violet.

Population

5,000,000–50,000,000 mature individuals (Partners in Flight 2019 est.), stable trend

Habitat

Semi-open to open lowland tropics — gallery forest edges, shade coffee/cacao plantations, savanna, and increasingly urban parks and gardens; low forest dependency

Fun fact

Male Black-throated Mangos flash an iridescent black-bordered throat patch during aggressive nectar-territory disputes, while females build a lichen-camouflaged cup nest saddled onto an exposed branch or even a utility wire.

Range

Lowland South America east of the Andes (Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay — absent from Chile), plus Panama and Trinidad and Tobago; extent of occurrence ~14.9 million km²; reaches up to ~2,000 m elevation locally in eastern Brazil

Diet

Primarily nectar from tall flowering trees (e.g. Erythrina, Eucalyptus, Tabebuia); supplemented with small insects taken by hawking and gleaning from foliage

Size

0.12 m