The Story
I photographed this Ochre-lored Flatbill (Tolmomyias flaviventris) at Finca la Reserva de Ecoflora, near Monterrey in Casanare, Colombia. This small yellow flycatcher feeds mostly in the forest canopy on a wide variety of insects, and on Trinidad and Tobago it also eats berries. Its nest is a pear-shaped bag with an entrance tube that leads up to near the bottom. In Colombia it lives up to about 800 meters. IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
I photographed it with a Canon R5 and the RF 800mm f/11 plus the RF 1.4x extender, at 1/90 sec, f/16, ISO 1600, +1 EV. Monterrey, in the foothills of the Eastern Cordillera about 105 kilometers from Yopal, was founded on September 6, 1953, and became a municipality in 1960.
©2022 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Ochre-lored Flatbill (Tolmomyias flaviventris) 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 2023), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List