Eight guacharacas and a woodpecker in the uvita

Omar was perfectly still when he saw them arrive. Eight guacharacas —Ortalis sp.— descended on the sector marked on the map as 10.4474309, -75.2619654, and settled in without any fuss among the fruits and flowers of the uvita. They fed with that quiet familiarity animals have when they know no one is going to disturb them: pecking here, moving there, unhurried. While the guacharacas held court over the scene, a lone woodpecker found its own feast a little further off — a ripe papaya too good to pass up. Omar captured it all on video, the kind of silent record that is worth more than any description. What he documented that Monday afternoon is exactly what happens when the sanctuary is working as it should: wild animals foraging freely, making the most of what the landscape offers them. The uvita in flower and fruit all at once, a papaya at its perfect moment, and the fauna of the Fundación Loros doing what they do best.