The quetzal, Guatemala’s national bird, is threatened by the loss of habitat and the National Protected Areas Council, or Conap, has launched an effort to stem the fragmentation of nesting and m ...

The toucans also eat quetzal eggs and nestlings ... relocating far or high enough to survive. -- Tropical birds in open habitats such as savanna, grasslands, scrub and desert face shifting ...

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 ...

Though indigenous societies sometimes hunted the birds for their feathers, their endangerment is a product of the modern world. As Europeans settled in Central America, they built cities, they cut ...