The Story
On June 23, 2017, I photographed this Bran-colored Flycatcher (Myiophobus fasciatus) at the Malecón Cameguadua in Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia. It lives in fairly open country such as dry forest, brushy savanna, pastures and thickets along watercourses. It is a small tyrant flycatcher, 11 to 14 centimeters long, with reddish-brown upperparts and two buff wing bars. Chinchiná lies 17 kilometers southwest of Manizales, at 1,360 meters, in a valley surrounded by coffee plantations. The Cameguadua reservoir in Chinchiná belongs to the power company CHEC and is fed by the Chinchiná and Campoalegre rivers.
I used a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM for this one, at 1/500 sec, f/7.1, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Bran-colored Flycatcher 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 Bran-colored Flycatcher (Myiophobus fasciatus) 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 2025), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List