The Story
This is a Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) that I photographed at the Malecón Cameguadua in Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia on June 23, 2017. It avoids dense forest except at the edges and lives in savanna, scrub, semi-open woodland and secondary growth. It is a tyrant flycatcher with a small head and a bushy crest. It is brownish olive above with two whitish wing bars, a pale gray throat and a yellowish belly. The reservoir sits at about 1,370 meters and has two lakes, with the tourist boardwalk, the malecón, on the northern one.
I photographed it with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/500 sec, f/8, ISO 400. IUCN lists the Yellow-bellied Elaenia 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.
©2020 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) 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