We have received new specimens of birds within the species exchange programme between centres that aims to preserve the genetic reservoir of these species. The aviary increases its family with two pairs of Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) and another two of Suirirí Cariblanco (Dendrocygna viduata) that, after the adaptation period and veterinary analyses, will be introduced into the Aviary. The conservation status of both species according to the IUCN is of “least concern.”

In the case of the Scarlet Ibis couple, this process will be slower because they are young and have not finished fledging yet. The two males and the two females of the Suirirís will go to the Aviary as soon as their quarantine period ends.

The Suirirí is a bird that lives in South America – from Nicaragua to the south – as well as in the southern part of Africa to the island of Madagascar. It is a duck with long legs and neck, a white and black head, with a reddish chest and flanks with white lines. They usually have a wingspan of 90 centimetres high and an average weight of 700 grams, whose natural habitat is lagoons, swamps and freshwater lakes, although they also live in brackish areas of the deltas and in the coastal vicinity. This bird feeds on seeds, small invertebrates, insects, molluscs and crustaceans.

The Scarlet Ibis, also known in many places as Red Corocoro, lives in the Atlantic coast of South America, mainly in Brazil. Its natural space is stagnant, fresh and swampy waters such as mangroves, marshes or surface lakes near the coast. Like flamingos, they stand out for their intense reddish colour of their plumage, which is generated by the pigmentation of the ingredients in their diet, mainly crabs, although they also feed on small fish, frogs and insects.