While in Costa Rica to lead a bird-photography tour, we saw drawings or paintings of the resplendent quetzal everywhere we looked. The bird's stunning profile appears on postcards. On hotel signs.

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 ...

After catching my breath from the heart-throbbing view of a resplendent quetzal in Costa Rica, I thought about the bird's influence on people. Bygone Mayans and Aztecs of Mesoamerica believed the bird ...

When I was young, I stood in a Costa Rican mountain cloud forest, desperately trying to find a resplendent quetzal with its dazzling plumage. Yet, a male bird had been perching in a tree 15 yards away ...

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 ...

An unimaginable array of flora and fauna can be found in Costa Rica‘s jungles amid the purr of jaguars, mist of clouds, and sputter of active volcanoes. From December to April, during the dry season, ...

Costa Rica set an all-time tourism record in 2015 with 2.6 million visitors. The country was an ecotourism pioneer, offering zipline and canopy adventures in its gorgeous rainforests before they were ...

BRATTLEBORO — The Southeastern Vermont Audubon Society will host a special program on The Resplendent Questzal — Tourism and Land Use in Costa Rica, at Brooks Memorial Library next Tuesday, May 20, at ...

NMAI copy 39088019917459 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Costa Rica lost almost half its forest cover from 1950 to 1990, much of it burned to clear pasture for cattle. In the last ...