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Ash-breasted tit-tyrant        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Ash-breasted tit-tyrants are active, attractively-marked specialists on Polylepis woodlands -- a high-altitude habitat that is rapidly disappearing due to extensive firewood cutting.   This one was photographed at Abra Malaga Pass, at about 4300 m altitude (about 14,500 feet) near Cuzco, Peru.   It did not sit still long enough, or come close enough, to allow a really good image.

  • Canon 1D4, 800 mm IS lens plus 1.4X extender, fill-in flash (2014)