


If Maya likes you, she'll play with your hair, so I made a new friend. She's more like Jewel - outgoing, feisty but friendly and very curious - than the more shy and retiring Blue. Maya is a long-tailed and brightly-coloured macaw, a South-American parrot, and a relative of the fictional hyacinth macaws Blue and Jewel made famous in the animated movies Rio and Rio 2.

It's not every day you get your hair done by a blue and gold macaw, but that's what happened during our most recent visit to Butterfly Creek. Everyone's in fine feather at Butterfly Creek's new exotic aviary, says Dionne Christian.
