Kids Resplendent Quetzal T-shirt Back to School A halt to further deforestation

A halt to further deforestation and vigorous replanting of native vegetation is likely the only way to prevent this natural jewel's extinction

as well as bird eggs

but not enough to consider the species threatened

with numbers decreasing by over 50% over the last 40-50 years

Though its population is thought to have increased over the last fifty years

Kids Resplendent Quetzal T-shirt Back to School A halt to further deforestationThis magnificent bird, the Resplendent Quetzal is currently the most sought after bird by birdwatchers in much of its range, just as it was previously revered in Mesoamerican mythology. The Aztec Quetzalcoatl, and the Mayan Kukulkan and Gukumatz were feathered serpent gods, according to myth, which exhibited the long plumes of the quetzal. A large trogon that resides mainly in higher elevation cloud forests from southern Mexico to Panama, it feeds