By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros·Reviewed by Alejandro Rigatuso
Omar was making his rounds near the house when he found it: in the wooden nest box wedged among the branches of a leafy tree, loro 39 and B67 had laid nine eggs. Two Amazonian parrots, green with their yellow crown markings, had been circling that box for some time now — no one quite knew what they were up to. Now everyone does.
Alejandro reported it from the sanctuary on November 13th. The photos arrived first: the pair perched together in the foliage, the box hanging between the branches with its circular opening facing the forest, loro 39 with his unmistakable medallion standing close to the nest. They're not easy to spot from below — you have to know where to look.
Nine eggs in a single nest box is not something that happens every day at Los Loros. The pair chose to stay close to the house, as if they somehow knew they were safe there. Now the sanctuary waits, all eyes fixed on that wooden box among the branches.
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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.
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