quetzalteueyac

[Anthony Appleyard]

Someone wrote wrote about the quetzal bird:

"I read that they nest in holes in treetrunks. When they are breeding, the
male
has to take a turn sitting on the eggs, and his tail plumes are folded
forwards over his back and out of the hole, so that any passing marauding
snake or monkey or tree-cat might think that they were a very unappetizing
tuft of fern growing out of the hole."