The Story
I photographed this Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans) at Finca Ecoturística San Javier, in the vereda Chucuní near Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia. It lives in many habitats but is always near water. It builds an open cup nest under a cliff or a bridge and cements it in place with mud. Its song is two alternating phrases, tee-hee, tee-ho, sung by both sexes but more often by males. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I used a Canon R5 with the RF 800mm f/11 for this one, at 1/180 sec, f/11, ISO 3200, +1 EV. Finca San Javier began as a pig farm in 1997 and turned to ecotourism in 2017, and today it offers guided birding and aims to help conserve the tropical dry forest around it.
©2021 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