Veraguan mango

The species is centered in Panama and has also expanded into parts of Costa Rica. It favors open and altered habitats such as gardens, scrub, woodland edges, and cultivated areas rather than dense forest interiors.

An adult male is a fairly large, dark hummingbird with a glossy green body and a purplish or magenta stripe running down the throat and breast. Its long, slightly curved black bill helps separate it from many smaller Panamanian hummingbirds.

The female has pale underparts marked by a dark central stripe, rather than the male's broadly green underparts. Immature birds can resemble females, so plumage pattern and location should be considered together.

Taxonomists recognized Anthracothorax veraguensis as distinct from the green-breasted mango, Anthracothorax prevostii, based on plumage and geographic differences. The split was adopted in 1995, turning the Panama-centered population into a separate species.