Green-throated Mango

Anthracothorax viridigula (Boddaert, 1783)

Spanish: Mango Gorjiverde

The Green-throated Mango (Anthracothorax viridigula) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 7.5 g and its bill is 32.0 mm long. It lives in Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

7.5 g, about 8 paperclips

Bill

32.0 mm

Lives in

Woodland

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern, decreasing

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Polytminae mangoes
3. Genus Anthracothorax mangos

Where it lives · 6 countries

• Trinidad and Tobago
• Brazil
• Suriname
• Guyana
• French Guiana
• Venezuela

Others in the genus Anthracothorax

• Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis
• Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
• Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango
• 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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