Jamaican Mango HummingBird

Jamaican Mango Hummingbird

 (Calypte costae)

Photographed in Jamaica

Rockland’s bird sanctuary      Aug 2013

Rockland is a open air sanctuary with no caged in birds

One of the 28 endemic birds of Jamaica, and are fairly common and widespread and only be found in that country. The Jamaican mango is the largest of the nation's hummingbirds. Its dark plumage may at first seem drab, but this hummer has spectacularly subtle beauty with a rainbow of iridescence in good light. A orange tail feather is always noticeable.

Jamaican mangos prefer less dense, lowland habitats that include plantations, forest edges, gardens and scrub areas, including more arid regions and backyards, though they are missing from the highest elevations of the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains. They do not strongly migrate but may drop to lower elevations in winter and populations can shift from the northern part of the country to the southern part seasonally, typically following the flowering season and the most abundant food sources.

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