Amigos de los Aves Bird Sanctuary

Casa de loros.

Military Macaws -- qué brillante!

Carol Stanley, 63, and her father, Richard James Frisius, 89, feeding peanuts to a Hyacinth Macaw in the living room of Frisius' home in Alejuela. The walls are decorated with art and souvenirs Richard and his late wife, Margot Annelore Frisius, collected from the different places they've lived over the years.

Frisius along with a small staff of volunteers and caretakers look after over 300 birds at Amigos de los Aves bird sanctuary in Frisius' home. Some birds roam freely, jumping from cage to cage to branch to person. To the right, Frisius shares a photo album of the life cycle macaws go through from incubation to birth to developing into adults. Some birds have been handreared with the help of Richard and his staff, while others are born and raised naturally by the birds themselves.