The Story
The shot
This is a Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus) that I photographed in La Macarena, Meta, Colombia on July 4, 2017. It is named for the streaking across most of its back and underparts, and it has a cinnamon tail and crown. It sallies for insects from a perch and gleans insects and berries from canopy foliage. Populations that breed in southern South America migrate north to Colombia after the breeding season. In 1948 the central part of the Serranía de la Macarena became the first national reserve in Colombia.
I photographed it with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 320. IUCN, which treats the northern and southern populations as separate species, lists both as Least Concern, and the botanical garden just outside La Macarena invites visitors to take part in its restoration work.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus) belongs to the family Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2025). Source: IUCN Red List
