The Story
On June 16, 2017, I photographed this male Black-throated Mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) at the Jardín Botánico del Quindío in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia. It is a hummingbird found from Panama through most of mainland South America, with a slightly curved black bill. 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 used a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM for this one, at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 640. IUCN lists the Black-throated Mango as Least Concern with a stable population, and the garden, a nonprofit foundation, also looks after eight hectares of natural forest in the Barbas-Bremen reserve near Filandia and Circasia.
©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