Invasion of the Macaws
No one really knows where they all came from, but Caracas is now teeming with exotic birds.
Photographer: Manaure Quintero/Bloomberg
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The macaw, a big, brilliantly colored and scandalously loud species of parrot, is definitely not indigenous to Caracas.