Parrot 25 appeared at Cerro El Peligro

This morning, Alberto arrived early at the release site on Cerro El Peligro and found more than he had expected. Against the dense green of the hills and a blue sky already heavy with the promise of heat, he counted 17 guacamayas moving between the perches and the fruit-laden feeders, a lone cheja keeping quietly to herself among the group, and two loros reales with that plumage that catches the tropical light differently than anything else. Alejandro received the report and passed it along without delay — 14 photographs and a video holding the full record of all that activity. But the detail that closed out the sighting came at the end, almost in passing: there was parrot number 25. In the photographs he can be seen perched on a wooden platform, his tag around his neck and a piece of fruit held in his beak, with the sanctuary's hills rolling out behind him. Twenty-five is doing well.