The Story
This is a Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) that I photographed at the Jardín Botánico del Quindío in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia on June 16, 2017. It usually forages alone or in pairs and eats fruit in trees and shrubs, and also feeds on the ground. It lives in semi-open country, from forest edges and clearings to shade coffee plantations, parks and gardens. It is a plain olive-brown thrush with a whitish belly and a black bill.
I photographed it with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600. IUCN lists the Black-billed Thrush as Least Concern with a stable population, and the garden, a nonprofit foundation, also looks after eight hectares of natural forest in the Barbas-Bremen reserve near Filandia and Circasia.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) belongs to the family Turdidae (Thrushes and Allies) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2025), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List