The Story
I photographed this Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) at the Malecón Cameguadua in Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia on June 23, 2017. It lives in semi-open country, from forest edges and clearings to shade coffee plantations, parks and gardens. It usually forages alone or in pairs and eats fruit in trees and shrubs, and also feeds on the ground. It is a plain olive-brown thrush with a whitish belly and a black bill. The Cameguadua reservoir in Chinchiná belongs to the power company CHEC and is fed by the Chinchiná and Campoalegre rivers.
I took this with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/500 sec, f/13, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Black-billed Thrush as Least Concern with a stable population, and Chinchiná is part of the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011.
©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