Two Reds at the Cerro Aviaries

This afternoon Carlos Mata looked up and found them there: two wild scarlet macaws, blazing in full red, circling the aviary zone at the Cerro where the birds of the Ara program make their home. They hadn't come through in passing. They were close — right at that place where the jungle and the aviaries touch. No one knows for certain what drew them. Perhaps the call of their kin held in captivity, perhaps the memory of the territory itself. What was captured on video is this: two free *Ara macao* chose that corner of the 520 hectares to land today, April 5th, 2026. And that, on the long road of a reintroduction program, is no small thing.