La historia
This Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus) perched on the top of a stump at the forest edge near Capurganá, in Chocó, Colombia, near the trail to Sapzurro, its pale crown and long central tail feathers clear against the green. It lives from Honduras south to most of South America, mostly below about 1,200 meters there. It nests in a cavity, often an old woodpecker hole or rotted knothole in a dead tree, 8 to 30 meters up, and pairs defend the nest tree against other cavity-nesting birds. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I used a Canon R5 with the RF 800mm f/11 for this one, at 1/125 sec, f/11, ISO 3200. Capurganá can be reached only by boat or small plane, and it has no cars, which keeps the village and its forest edges quiet for birds like this one.
©2025 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus) pertenece a la familia Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2021), with the population trend listed as stable. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
