Black-throated Mango

Sightings
Black-throated Mango was a very common visitor to the feeders and flowers around the verandah of the Asa Wright Centre in Trinidad. This female bird perched quite close to the building on a bare branch which allowed me to take my preferred photograph away from the feeders. The females seemed to be more common the males.

Species
Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis breeds from Panama south to north easterm Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Argentina. It is also common on both Trinidad and Tobago. It is a local or seasonal migrant with some birds moving up to 1000 miles although its movements are not well understood. This small bird inhabits open country, gardens and cultivation.

Status and Distribution
It is a species of least concern in its enormous breeding range in south America of some 15 million square kilometres. It is a common resident on Trinidad, but less common on Tobago.

References
Asa Wright Centre; BirdLife; Wikipedia; World Bird Names; Kenefick, M., Restall, R., and Hayes, F. (2015) Birds of Trinidad and Tobago, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 164.

Photograph
Photographed at 1/1000th of a second, f5.6 and ISO 1600.