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Pharomachrus mocinno
This is my first ever spotting of a quetzal although not the best. Later I will post much better close ups of quetzals made in San Gerardo de Dota. I already want to post this spotting to call attention to people visiting the Cloud Forests of Santa Elena y Monteverde, since in both I could spot this beautiful bird. They are hard to find because the canopy is very tall and the forest very thick in these areas but with a scope and/or a good objective you can be lucky and make nice shots. I will describe the species in more detail in my future postings. Check the video. The bird seems to be a male but young because I could not see the long green tail feathers that are characteristic of mature males.
Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve.
Spotted on Apr 9, 2014
Submitted on May 13, 2014
6 Comments
Thanks Gilma for making efforts to preserve this beautiful species! :-)
Nice spotting, Marta RubioTexeira.
Happy you got to see them. We (Costa Rican's) are working together in every way we can to keep their population growing and it is working.
Thank you annorion! Later in the near future I wll post some that I have of quetzals male and female in a different area of CR :-)
Beautiful!
Thanks! better shots still on the way ;-)
oh WOW!