The Story
I photographed this Striated Heron (Butorides striata) at the Malecón Cameguadua in Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia on June 23, 2017. It is widespread in tropical and warm temperate South America, mainly in the lowlands, in marshes, lakes and rivers. It eats mainly small fish, frogs and aquatic insects. It sometimes uses bait, dropping a feather or leaf on the water and catching the fish that come to look. The Cameguadua reservoir in Chinchiná belongs to the power company CHEC and is fed by the Chinchiná and Campoalegre rivers.
I took this with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1000. IUCN lists the Striated Heron as Least Concern with a stable population, and Chinchiná is part of the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Striated Heron (Butorides striata) belongs to the family Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2022), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List