Bird
Bird
Green-throated Mango
Anthracothorax viridigula
The Green-throated Mango is a hummingbird of Trinidad's coastal and mangrove-associated habitats, closely related to the more widespread Black-throated Mango but distinguished by a brilliant emerald-green throat rather than black.
The Green-throated Mango is a hummingbird of Trinidad's coastal and mangrove-associated habitats, closely related to the more widespread Black-throated Mango but distinguished by a brilliant emerald-green throat rather than black.
Identification
A medium-sized hummingbird around 11 to 12 cm long. Males show a glittering emerald-green throat and breast bordered by darker feather edges, with bronze-green upperparts and a slightly decurved black bill. Females are duller green above with whitish underparts marked by a dark central stripe.
Behaviour
Forages at flowering trees and shrubs in coastal scrub, mangrove edge, and wetland-associated vegetation, feeding on nectar and supplementing its diet with small insects taken in flight. It is territorial at good nectar sources, chasing off other hummingbirds much as its Black-throated relative does.
Status in T&T
Found in coastal and mangrove-associated habitats in Trinidad, generally more localised than the Black-throated Mango. Not considered threatened. It is protected as native wildlife under the Conservation of Wildlife Act.
Threats
- Loss of coastal and mangrove flowering habitat
