The Story
I photographed this Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) at the Río Blanco reserve near Manizales, Caldas, Colombia on June 24, 2017. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, in forest interior and edges and in clearings left by fallen trees. It is one of several antpittas that regularly come to feeding stations set up so people can see them, where they are fed earthworms. It forages mostly on the ground, running and stopping to probe the leaf litter.
I took this with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600. IUCN lists the Chestnut-crowned Antpitta as Least Concern with an increasing population, and Río Blanco, a protected forest reserve managed by the regional authority Corpocaldas, supplies about 35 percent of the drinking water of Manizales.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Chestnut-crowned Antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) belongs to the family Grallariidae (Antpittas) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2024), with the population trend listed as increasing. Source: IUCN Red List