Bright green bird with rich shiny red chest sitting on a mossy branch. Its head, with thin golden-yellow feathers sticking up vertically and oversized black marble-like eyes, is tilted down making it look shy or bashful. Some of its bright green wing feathers are seemingly pointed the wrong direction, curves forward over its chest.
Bright green bird with an exceptionally long, iridescent, tail feather that is green to blue as it curves, sitting on a mossy branch looking back over its shoulder toward the camera.
I have to show off this absolutely unreal quetzal I had the pleasure of seeing in person. Otherwise I don't know if I could have been convinced that it wasn't stuffed animal.
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