Toucans have been seen in the city of Le Havre, mad toucans, flying over the harbour sky.
However, not such a long time ago, they were in the Amazon forest where they lived their happy toucans lives.
They arrived in France, brought by a French poet, who bought them on an illegal wild animals market of a small town, lost somewhere on the forest.
The poet returned home from his trip on the cheapest cargo boat we could find. He kept the birds free inside his cabin. Toucans are very sweet and friendly birds.
They arrived in Le Havre, France on March 2020, at the very beginning of the first lockdown. The pandemic was becoming dangerous. The crew and the few passengers were not aloud to disembark.
After two weeks confined in his ship’s cabin , the french poet decided he should better let the toucans free. What he did…