Green-breasted Mango: Fruity Flyer

A mango is more than a delicious fruit! It’s also a group of neotropical hummingbird species, exemplified this week by the striking Green-breasted Mango. In this species, the male appears dark, but seen in good light, is deep green with black running down its throat, breast, and belly, bordered on either side by glittering lime and teal. Its dark reddish-purple tail is especially noticeable when spread and in flight.
Females and juvenile males are eye-catching in a different way: they have the same vertical black stripe on the underside as males, but it stands out more noticeably against their white underparts. In juveniles, the chest and throat are also bordered by two burnt orange stripes. The outer tail feathers of females and juveniles are banded in magenta and dark blue, with narrow white tips.
In ornithology, “mango” refers to hummingbirds in the genus Anthracothorax. But where does the fruit reference come in?
Read on to find out more: abcbirds.org/bird/green-breas...

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