Black-throated Mango in flight

Sightings
A Black-throated Mango in flight was very difficult to photograph and I am not sure that I have done justice to this beautiful bird. This female tended to watch the feeders from a high perch and dive down when there few other birds around. It was necessary to watch the bird back off the feeders and try and photograph it when its body was stationary.

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 in rather poor late evening light at 1/500th of a second, f5.6 and ISO 2500. 1/1000th of a second with higher ISO may have been better.