The Story
I photographed this Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) at La Florida near Bogotá, Colombia on June 29, 2017. It lives in many habitats but always near water. It waits on a perch and then sallies out to catch insects in the air. It builds an open cup nest of mud under a cliff or bridge. Ninety bird species have been recorded at La Florida. La Florida is a wetland and park known as the Parque Metropolitano La Florida, near the Bogotá River.
I took this with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Black Phoebe as Least Concern with an increasing population, and the Bogotá Water Company is in charge of restoring the city’s wetlands, which support more than 95 species of migratory birds.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) 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 2021), with the population trend listed as increasing. Source: IUCN Red List