Seventeen Guacamayas and a Cheja in the Surrounding Area

The morning of April 2nd arrived with more color than expected. Somewhere around the sanctuary, someone counted seventeen guacamayas and a cheja moving through the area — a sighting that doesn't go unnoticed even when the day is busy with other things. Alejandro logged it the following day, with the economy of words that belongs to someone who knows the numbers speak for themselves. Inside the aviary, two scarlet macaws (Ara macao) were taking their time at the breakfast trays: chunks of tomato, cucumber, sunflower seeds. Behind the wire mesh, pink bougainvilleas bloomed as if they too wanted to be part of it. A little further on, in the area where the wooden frames of the new enclosure are still going up, two blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) had settled onto a makeshift perch. One of them spread its wings wide open under the morning sun — unhurried, as if measuring the space it had ahead of it.