The Story
I photographed this Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) at the Malecón Cameguadua in Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia on June 23, 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. 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 1/2000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600. IUCN lists the Black Phoebe as Least Concern with an increasing 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 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