The Story
I photographed this Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum) at the Hotel Campestre Resguardos de Paz, near El Paujil, Caquetá, Colombia, in February 2020. It has a mostly black head with a wide yellow eyebrow, bright yellow underparts and two yellow wing bars. Some mid-twentieth-century authors treated the Black-headed and Painted tody-flycatchers as its subspecies, but by the 1970s both were full species again. It is a bird of the western and central Amazon Basin, and the subspecies guttatum is the one found from Meta to Guainía in southeastern Colombia. It is considered common in Colombia. IUCN lists it as Least Concern, though its numbers are believed to be falling.
I made this frame with a Pentax K-1 and the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6, at 1/160 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400. El Paujil’s coat of arms carries the paujil, the town’s emblem bird, facing the setting sun as a sign of hope.
©2021 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum) 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 2024), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Source: IUCN Red List