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quetzal bird

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Noun1.quetzal bird - large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumagequetzal bird - large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage
trogon - forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails
genus Pharomacrus, Pharomacrus - a genus of Trogonidae
Pharomacrus mocino, resplendent quetzel, resplendent trogon - very rare Central American bird; the national bird of Guatemala


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The museum will offer the opportunity to try your hand at some Aztec-themed crafts, including making an Aztec sun plate or a quetzal bird.
While the one plot is only a small portion of the park's thousands of acres, officials fear there may be other illegal plantations, and that an invasion by farmers could disrupt species such as pumas, quetzal birds, and rare orchids.
The Quetzal bird takes her to visit the Ghana countryside in West Africa, where she helps the local children harvest chocolate--collecting fruit, opening its pods, scooping out the pulp, gathering the cocoa beans, leaving them covered with banana leaves for a week, finally drying them in the sun and packing them in sacks.
 
 
 
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