The Story
I photographed this female Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) at the Kairi Lodge Natural Reserve, near Manizales, Caldas, Colombia, in February 2020. It breeds in eastern North America and winters in the tropics. Its name honors the English botanist Anna Blackburne, and Thomas Pennant introduced it in 1785. Even the female is easy to tell by her dull-yellow eyebrow, grayish cheeks and yellow throat. It forages high in the treetops, and in winter it stays apart from other small songbirds. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I used a Pentax K-1 with the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6 for this one, at 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600, +1 EV. Kairi opened in 2017 as a rural eco-lodge built around conservation tourism, and it aims for a positive social impact on the people who work with it.
©2020 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) belongs to the family Parulidae (New World Warblers) 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