Anthracothorax mango
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The Jamaican mango (Anthracothorax mango) is a species of hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae. It is endemic to Jamaica. The Jamaican mango was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Trochilus mango. Linnaeus based his description on the "Mango bird" that had been described and illustrated in 1738 by the English naturalist Eleazar Albin. The Jamaican mango is now placed in the genus Anthracothorax that was introduced in 1831 by Friedrich Boie. The species is monotypic: No subspecies are recognized.
There is some evidence that the species is the most basal within the genus Anthracothorax. The Jamaican mango is 11 to 12 cm (4.3 to 4.7 in) long and weighs 8.5 to 9.1 g (0.30 to 0.32 oz). It differs from all others of its genus by being dark overall rather than mostly bright green. The adult male's crown is dull green, the sides of the head and neck metallic magenta, and the back dull greenish bronze. The central tail feathers are dusky bronze to dull black and the rest metallic violet with a thin dark blue band. The underparts are velvety black. The adult... Wikipedia →
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park | 🇯🇲 Jamaica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Jamaican Mango sighting in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, based on 205 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 52nd most-seen of the 91 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, March and September
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Jamaican Mango in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park on a given day, against about 10% in April and October–November, the lowest months. June has too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jamaican Mango sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, in our data
Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Jamaican Mango sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Trochilidae
The closest relatives of the Jamaican Mango that you can see in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (family Trochilidae, Hummingbirds) are Streamertail (about 60%), Vervain Hummingbird (about 40%) and Streamertail (Black-billed) (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jamaican Mango is recorded against all the birds logged in Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (205 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
