diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 1a10dd8..615391e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 Change History
 **************
 
+v0.8.7 (unreleased)
+===================
+
+* Fix regression, where loading TIFF files would return a Dataset instead of a DataArray, the behavior prior to 0.8.5.
+
+
 v0.8.6 (2024-03-18)
 ===================
 
diff --git a/birdy/client/converters.py b/birdy/client/converters.py
index 6ee0bae..3dced2d 100644
--- a/birdy/client/converters.py
+++ b/birdy/client/converters.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ def convert(self):  # noqa: D102
         import xarray  # isort: skip
         import rioxarray  # noqa
 
-        return xarray.open_dataset(self.file, engine="rasterio")
+        return xarray.open_dataarray(self.file, engine="rasterio")
 
 
 # TODO: Add test for this.
diff --git a/tests/test_converters.py b/tests/test_converters.py
index 0acca1b..4dcb3dc 100644
--- a/tests/test_converters.py
+++ b/tests/test_converters.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import tempfile
 
 import pytest
+import xarray as xr
 from common import resource_file
 
 from birdy.client import converters
@@ -101,5 +102,5 @@ def test_raster_tif():
     pytest.importorskip("rioxarray")
     fn = resource_file("Olympus.tif")
 
-    ds = converters.convert(fn, path="/tmp")
-    assert "band_data" in ds.variables
+    da = converters.convert(fn, path="/tmp")
+    assert isinstance(da, xr.DataArray)