Long-tailed widowbirds are generally found in swampy grassland in flocks consisting of one or two males and a number of females. Yet, when Capitano found you, you were all alone, shivering and barely alive. He was staying in Natlan, and took care of you.

Your kind's diet generally consists of seeds, supplemented occasionally by arthropods, so you weren't much of a use to him. Nevertheless, Capitano would take you with him everywhere. As time passed, he grew protective and almost fond of you.