The Story
This is a Rusty-margined Flycatcher (Myiozetetes cayanensis) that I photographed in La Macarena, Meta, Colombia on July 4, 2017. It lives in partly open country, including farmland, clearings, pastures with shrubs and forest edges, and favors places near water. It feeds mostly on insects, often sallying out over water, and also eats small fruits. In Colombia it is found from sea level to about 2,000 meters. In 1948 the central part of the Serranía de la Macarena became the first national reserve in Colombia.
I photographed it with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/200 sec, f/6.3, ISO 200. IUCN lists the Rusty-margined Flycatcher as Least Concern with a stable population, and the Sierra de la Macarena has been a national natural park since 1971, protecting 6,200 square kilometers where Amazon, Orinoco and Andean wildlife meet.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Rusty-margined Flycatcher (Myiozetetes cayanensis) 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 2021), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List