Male Green-breasted Mango
Key Facts
NAME
- Green-Breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii
DESCRIPTION
- Overall: A large green hummingbird, stocky, with a relatively long, thick, decurved bill and broad tail.
- Adult Males: Mostly deep iridescent green with a dark purple throat and mostly purple tail.
- Adult Females: Like male but with dark stripe from throat running down breast, where it turns green. Rest of underparts white, giving a distinctive striped look.
- Immature Males & Females: Similar to females with additional, striking cinnamon stripe from the base of the bill to the lower flanks.
SIZE
- Length: 4.5 – 5 inches (11 – 12.5 cm)
- Bill Length: 0.95 – 1.2 inches (24 – 30 mm)
- Wingspan: 6 inches (15 cm)
- Weight: 0.17 – 0.26 oz (5 – 7.5 grams)
RANGE IN USA
- Breeding: N/A
- Migration: N/A
- Wintering: N/A
- Vagrants: casual in S Texas; accidental in North Carolina
WORLD RANGE
- From E and S Mexico, Central America, N South America and W Caribbean
Green-breasted Mango distribution
CONSERVATION STATUS
MIGRATION
- Rare vagrant to the USA
- Arriving in USA: October
- Departing USA: December
HABITAT
- Breeding: N/A
- Wintering: most USA records are from hummingbird feeders
ELEVATION
- Breeding: N/A
- Wintering: N/A
NESTING
- Nest: N/A
- Situation: N/A
- Eggs: N/A
- Incubation: N/A
FOOD
- Forages from high to low levels, mostly feeding on nectar from flowers and flowering trees and sugar water from hummingbird feeders, but also small flying insects
VOICE
- Song: not very vocal; a high-pitched twittering
- Call: a high-pitched “tsip” as well as some hard ticking sounds
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SUBSPECIES
- Anthracothorax prevostii prevostii
E & S Mexico S to Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador - Anthracothorax prevostii gracilirostris
El Salvador and Honduras S to C Costa Rica - Anthracothorax prevostii hendersoni
San Andrés I and Providencia I in W Caribbean - Anthracothorax prevostii viridicordatus
Extreme NE Colombia and coastal slope of N Venezuela - Anthracothorax prevostii iridescens
Arid W Colombia and coastal slope of SW Ecuador and extreme NW Peru
SIMILAR SPECIES
- N/A
IDENTIFICATION PITFALLS
- N/A
Photo Gallery
Male Green-breasted Mango (R.P. Fray)
Male Green-breasted Mango (R.P. Fray)
Female Green-breasted Mango
Immature Green-breasted Mango
