By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros
In December 2023, renowned free-flight trainer Chris Biro arrived at the sanctuary and was immediately drawn to her: macaw number 2, an Ara who approached humans with an uncommon, almost unsettling ease. Two years later, on December 9th, 2025, that same bird lifted into the air alongside twenty other macaws from the loros.org release site, just a few kilometers from Cartagena, and dissolved into the deep green of the forest.
On February 10th, 2026, the team returned to the site — and there she was: number 2, drinking water alongside three other macaws, an entire flock visible in the surrounding trees. She didn't come closer. She didn't seek out familiar hands or familiar faces. That indifference — so hard-won, so deliberate — was the best news of the day.
The one Biro had once described as exceptionally friendly toward humans had grown, with time and with the jungle, a little wilder, a little freer. Faithful to her territory, companioned and alive: number 2 has found her place.
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.
