Black-throated Mango
Anthracothorax nigricollis (Vieillot, 1817)
Spanish: Mango Gorjinegro
The Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 7.0 g and its bill is 25.7 mm long. It lives in 14 countries, including Colombia, Brazil, Panama, Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.0 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 25.7 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Polytminae mangoes
- Genus Anthracothorax mangos
Where it lives · 14 countries
- Colombia
- Brazil
- Panama
- Ecuador
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Venezuela
- Peru
- Argentina
- Paraguay
- Guyana
- Bolivia
- Suriname
- French Guiana
- Uruguay
Others in the genus Anthracothorax
- Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango
- Green-throated Mango Anthracothorax viridigula
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Veraguan Mango Anthracothorax veraguensis
- Hispaniolan Mango Anthracothorax dominicus
- Puerto Rican Mango Anthracothorax aurulentus
- Green Mango Anthracothorax viridis
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.
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