Children Will Name Presidential Palace’s New Baby Herons

As a means to promote healthy competition between primary schools, the Presidency will hold a competition for students to name three new baby herons that arrived to the presidential palace.

The students will have from July 1 to July 30 to name the birds.  President Martinelli told the children, grades 1 to 5, that winners will each take home a new computer.

The presidential palace is officially known as Heron’s Palace.  In 1922, at the suggestion of his poet friend Ricardo Miro, President Belisario Porras first brought in two of the white wading birds to inhabit the palace’s Andalusian courtyard.

Two of the Three Baby Herons