Black-throated Mango / Zwartkeelmango

Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis)

Pictures (click on them to enlarge)
© John S. Dunning	© Foek Chin Joe	© Foek Chin Joe
© Pieter Verheij	female © Martin Tot	© Ton Plug
male © Dominiek Plouvier	© Dominiek Plouvier	© Dominiek Plouvier

Black-throated Mango: A dark hummingbird with a black throat and breast and the rest green-brown, for the male. The female also has some white between the black and green parts like on the second picture by Foek Chin Joe in Suriname. The bill is bend downwards. Like all hummingbirds you find them in gardens with a lot of flowers, but this one especially in high, flowering, trees. This species is found in the coastal aera and in the savannas and somewhat less in the forest. They make their nest high in a tree.
All hummingbirds are excellent flyers, forewards, side- and backwards. This costs a lot of energy, so they visit many flowers to satisfy their hunger. They eat three times their weight everyday of (sweet) food. They eat small insects also. To save energy they spend three-quarters of a day resting on a branch.
The video was made by Dominiek Plouvier.

Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see)
Video recording of a Black-throated Mango © ;

Distribution

Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least four observations on different days and the largest ones ten or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
Not all places in Suriname have been equally often visited by birders, so the distribution of the squares gives an indication of the whereabouts of the birds, but also of the birders. Some places deep in the south have no reported bird observations, by experienced birders, within 60 kilometer.

Abundance in different areas
coastal zone (blue dots on the map) :
northern savannas (yellow dots (in the north)) :
rainforest under 400 m (red dots) :
rainforest above 400 m (red dots) :
Sipaliwini savanna (yellow dots (in the south)) :
A blank is shown if not convincingly reported in the zone. Data interpreted by Arie Spaans, Otte Ottema and Jan Hein Ribot.

Names
Scientific name:	Anthracothorax nigricollis
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae, 35 in Suriname
Dutch:	Zwartkeelmango
English:	Black-throated Mango
Sranan ('Surinamese'):	Korke/Kolibri
Guyana:
Papiamento:
Spanish (Venezuela):	Mango pechinegro
Portugese (Brazil):	Beija-flor-preto
Arowak:	Hiekiebientjie
Carib:	Toekoesie
French:	Mango à cravate noire

Observations through the year	Observations of breeding through the year

The 215 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.	The 3 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Observations through the year

Observations of breeding through the year

The 215 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.

The 3 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest.

Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences.
The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Last update: September 2024 by Jan Hein Ribot. Please mail your comments, photos to: jhribot ( residing at ) gmail (point!) com.
observations can be uploaded to suriname.observation.org or ebird.org ).