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. This tiny flycatcher weighs about 7 grams, and males and females look alike. It has a mostly black head with a wide yellow eyebrow, bright yellow underparts and two yellow wing bars. 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. IUCN lists it as Least Concern, though its numbers are believed to be falling.
I used a Pentax K-1 with the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6 for this one, at 1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400. El Paujil takes its name from the paujil, a curassow that was once common around the town.
©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