The Story
This is a female Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) that I photographed at the Jardín Botánico del Quindío in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia on June 16, 2017. Females are green above with a thin, ragged black stripe down a white-bordered throat. The garden also looks after forest near Filandia and Circasia that is part of the Barbas-Bremen forest reserve. The garden’s main site is a research and environmental-education center in a remnant of native forest in Calarcá. The Jardín Botánico del Quindío was the first botanical garden in Colombia to be fully legalized, receiving its environmental permit from the regional authority in 1998.
I photographed it with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Black-throated Mango as Least Concern with a stable population, and the garden’s butterfly house keeps more than 30 butterfly species native to Colombia.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) belongs to the family Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2021), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List