
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Four carasucias and a table set outside
By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros
On April 23rd, with the morning still cool over the Decameron aviary, Omar opened the doors and four cotorra carasucia parrots stepped out into the open air. Until that moment, they had known the world only from within: wooden perches, wire mesh, a bowl of fruit, and the dense tropical vegetation pressed against the edges of their enclosure. That corner had been their refuge while they healed; the open sky, their next step.
As part of the site-fidelity protocol, the team had arranged fruit outside the aviary before releasing the birds — a way of telling them, without words, that this place belongs to them too. The idea is simple and effective: that the cotorras return on their own, that they come to recognize the site as their own, that freedom not be a rupture but an extension of the familiar. A table set outside, waiting for them.
About the author
Alejandro Rigatuso · Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros
Alejandro Rigatuso arrived at Fundación Loros after years as Vice President of Growth Marketing at Toptal, bringing with him an unconventional perspective: he knows an animal is well by its eyes, "bright, wide open." Lorenzo, the first parrot released, recaptured several times and always set free to fly again, marked him forever. At dusk, around five-thirty, you'll find him at the Mirador de las Ciénagas or wandering around Cerro El Peligro, envisioning observation towers and hundreds of native parrots soaring over a reserve that an entire community calls their own.
