Aviario Nacional de Colombia
Rescue sanctuary of wetland, desert and rainforest aviaries built by a family for trafficked and injured birds.
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This guide to the Aviario Nacional de Colombia near Cartagena follows Rafael Vieira, who kept bringing home pigeons and roosters until friends started dropping off birds nobody else wanted, from a macaw pulled off a trafficker's van to an owl with a fractured wing. It traces how his son, raised so steeped in birds he was nicknamed Martín Pescador, and Rafael's wife Silvana Obregón, who already ran the nearby Oceanario, helped the family outgrow a small plot in El Palmar. Over about a decade they cleared seven hectares of scrub on Isla Barú and ferried close to two thousand birds across the water, crate by crate.
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