Veraguan Mango
Anthracothorax veraguensis Reichenbach, 1855
Spanish: Mango de Veragua
The Veraguan Mango (Anthracothorax veraguensis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 7.0 g and its bill is 27.7 mm long. It lives in Panama and Costa Rica. 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
- 27.7 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 · 2 countries
Others in the genus Anthracothorax
- Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
- Hispaniolan Mango Anthracothorax dominicus
- Green-throated Mango Anthracothorax viridigula
- Puerto Rican Mango Anthracothorax aurulentus
- Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis
- Green Mango Anthracothorax viridis
- Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango
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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