This is not just the most beautiful bird in Central America but is also considered the most beautiful bird in the western hemisphere!
Love your choice of composition and the habitat that surrounds the bird.
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Juan AGeoJO wroteEven 560mm looks too short to cover the distance to this bird, the most beautiful bird in Central America. The quetzals are getting rare and are considered endangered as their living habitat, the cloud forest in the high elevation, is rapidly dwindling. The size of the bird is about that of a small dove but the tail is long during the breeding season, like around that time. This image is one of the several so-called insurance shots just to make sure I would not go home empty-handed. Yes, I took a gradually bolder and bolder approach in photographing this bird later on. Actually, I considered myself lucky that I could see and photograph the quetzal on both of my CR trips...
Thank you very much, Juan! Yes, it is an exquisite bird, especially the male quetzal with his long tail feathers.
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Here is another image from Costa Rica of a violet sabrewing hummingbird this time around