Four Parrots, One Shared Table

In aviary 2 of the El Paraíso sector, Alejandro switched on the camera at feeding time and found exactly what the team has been searching for these past weeks: four parrots — Beethoven, number 12, number 19, and B92 — sharing the feeder without disputes, without tension, with that quiet ease that only exists between those who already know each other well. Beethoven, number 15, was right there in the center of it all, as though there were nothing more natural in the world. This is no small detail. At Fundación Loros, documenting who eats with whom is part of the painstaking work that comes before any release: affinity groups — those bonds that the animals build on their own terms, in their own time — are the compass that guides the team when deciding who will fly together into the wild. Beethoven and his three companions have just left a very clear trail.