As the first light of dawn touched the calm waters of Lake Atitlán, our family embarked on a quest to see one of the world’s most hard-to-find and beautiful birds—the dazzling quetzal. According to ...

Raúl Fernández’s whistle resonates through the wild avocado trees just off the main road in San Gerardo de Dota, a small mountain village where birds far outnumber humans. There is one particular bird ...

Guatemala is home to one of the world's most pristine cloud forests and largest remaining habitat of the highly threatened quetzal bird. But, decades of natural resource exploitation is starting to ...

The Monomet Conservation Sciences has released its 2025 State of the Birds report. The report reveals accelerating declines in bird populations across the continent of North America. These declines ...

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Everyone in Boquete knows that Pipeline Trail is the best place to spot resplendent quetzals–those glorious, almost mythical trogons with bright-red breasts and long feather-boa tails. So that’s where ...

Costa Rica is a wildlife photographer’s paradise. I just returned from two weeks of trekking through the hot and humid lowland tropical jungles and hiking high up in the cold cloud forest mountains, ...

COPEY DE DOTA, San José — I had already decided our quetzal quest was a bust, and I wished the guide would give up so we could go back to the lodge and eat breakfast. And then, after nearly two hours ...

What the eagle is to the U. S., the quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail ...