The Story
This is a Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Nesotriccus murinus) that I photographed at PANACA in Quimbaya, Quindío, Colombia on June 15, 2017. It is a small tyrant flycatcher found from Costa Rica and Panama south to Brazil and northern Argentina. It was formerly placed in the genus Phaeomyias. It lives in open to semi-open country, much of it dry, such as scrub, deciduous woodland and young secondary forest. Quimbaya takes its name from the Quimbaya civilization, the pre-Columbian people who lived in the area.
I photographed it with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1000. IUCN lists the Mouse-colored Tyrannulet as Least Concern with an increasing population, and Quimbaya became part of the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 2011.
©2017 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Mouse-colored Tyrannulet (Nesotriccus murinus) 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 2024), with the population trend listed as increasing. Source: IUCN Red List