By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros·Reviewed by Alejandro Rigatuso
There are mornings at Los Loros that stay with you even though no one planned them. Corina was at the release point in the Ara area when she looked up and found something that stopped time: a scarlet macaw, a blue-and-yellow, and an Ara severus — all three perched in the crown of the same bare tree, beneath a grey sky heavy with the promise of rain. Five photographs stand as witness.
In the images, the contrast is almost unreal — the burning red of the Ara macao, the vivid blue and yellow of the Ara ararauna, and the muted green of the Ara severus, all together against the grey of the clouds. Below, barely visible, the silhouette of a person taking in the scene. We don't know whether anything like this had ever been seen at this exact spot before, but the uncertainty itself says something: this is not an everyday sighting.
The release point exists to give these birds a second chance in the world. That three distinct species of the same genus chose that same tree, at that same moment, is the kind of thing you cannot ask for — and cannot repeat.
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.
