A dark hummingbird with a black throat and breast and the rest
green-brown, for the male. The female also has some white between
the black and green parts like on the second picture by Foek Chin
Joe in Suriname. The bill is bend downwards. Like all
hummingbirds you find them in gardens with a lot of flowers, but
this one especially in high, flowering, trees. This species is
found in the coastal aera and in the savannas and somewhat less
in the forest. They make their nest high in a tree.
All hummingbirds are excellent flyers, forewards, side- and
backwards. This costs a lot of energy, so they visit many flowers
to satisfy their hunger. They eat three times their weight
everyday of (sweet) food. They eat small insects also. To save
energy they spend three-quarters of a day resting on a branch.
Penard writes (at the beginning of this century), that dried and
smoked heads and hearts of hummingbirds where used to make a
'toelala', a substance to enchant a girl or to put a spell on
her. It was quite popular then.
Picture of a mango female breeding in Suriname, made by Foek Chin Joe. And below this text a male black-throated mango bringing cob web material for its nest in January 2007, made by Pieter Verheij. The top picture was made by J.S. Dunning and the second one by Foek Chin Joe, all in Suriname.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna |  |
| Forests | |
| Mountain forests |  |
| Sipalawini savanna | |
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More hummingbird pictures from Suriname, part 5