The Story
On June 14, 2017, I photographed this Rusty-margined Flycatcher (Myiozetetes cayanensis) at the Parque del Café near Montenegro, Quindío, Colombia. 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. The idea for the park began with a coffee museum, proposed by Diego Arango Mora after he visited the Sugar Museum in Valle del Cauca.
I used a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM for this one, at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800. IUCN lists the Rusty-margined Flycatcher as Least Concern with a stable population, and the park’s museum keeps the history and culture of the region’s coffee growing on view for more than a million visitors a year.
©2017 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