Jamaican Mango

© Clive Daelman

Birdfinding.info ⇒  Generally common and easy to find in dry, open lowland habitats, less so in humid forests and mountains.  Reliable sites include Rocklands Bird Sanctuary (for viewing at point-blank range), Treasure Beach, Portland Ridge, the Hellshire Hills, Robin’s Bay, and San San.  Occurs regularly in the gardens of many resort hotels, especially the ones that have hummingbird feeders.

Jamaican Mango

Anthracothorax mango

Family: Trochilidae

Endemic to Jamaica, where it is generally common in coastal lowlands all around the island in dry and semiopen habitats such as scrub and gardens.  Uncommon or localized in humid woodlands and at higher elevations throughout the island.

Identification

Unmistakable: a large, all-dark hummingbird.  No similar species on Jamaica.

Male has striking iridescent rosy-purple on the head and tail, and a greenish or coppery sheen on the back.

Female is less iridescent and paler, with grayish tail-tips.

Jamaican Mango.  (Rocklands Bird Sanctuary, Jamaica; February 9, 2017.)  © Clive Daelman

Jamaican Mango.  (Rocklands Bird Sanctuary, Jamaica; February 12, 2019.)  © Jeff Chapman

Jamaican Mango, hand-fed.  (Rocklands Bird Sanctuary, Jamaica.)  TripAdvisor

Jamaican Mango.  (Rocklands Bird Sanctuary, Jamaica; November 4, 2006.)  © Jan van den Broeck

Jamaican Mango.  (Rocklands Bird Sanctuary, Jamaica; February 2012.)  © Ignacio Yúfera

Jamaican Mango.  (January 4, 2011.)  © Hal and Kirsten Snyder

Jamaican Mango.  (Goblin Hill Villas, San San, Jamaica; January 15, 2018.)  © Charley Hesse TROPICAL BIRDING

Notes

Monotypic species.

References

eBird. 2018. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y. http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed October 31, 2018.)

Fogden, M., M. Taylor, and S.L. Williamson. 2014. Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species. HarperCollins, New York.

Haynes-Sutton, A., A. Downer, R. Sutton, and Y.-J. Rey-Millet. 2009. A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Jamaica. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

Raffaele, H., J. Wiley, O. Garrido, A. Keith, and J. Raffaele. 1998. A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.