Finding the Elusive Magnificent Quetzals
There are several trails leading into the rain forest from Boquete. On our first day here we hiked the Pipeline Trail to the waterfall. We had hoped to see the magnificient quetzals. They are extremely difficult to spot and we had no luck in doing so. We had been told this is mating season and it's the best time ever to spot one so I wanted to try again, this time with an experienced guide. Joe decided not to go. He's not much into hiking. But had he come he would have seen not one, not two, but five male quetzals.
I've tried to enlargen the pictures I took from my little camera. In the pictures you can see the quetzales' long blue plume of a tail. The first one I saw flew overhead trailing this plume. He really is magnificient. He has the coloring of a parrot but he's bigger than the average parrot. 
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