Quetzal - Coe - Atl (Emily’s Blog)

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Hi Folks! As many of you know firsthand, communication/keeping in touch with family and friends is not one of my strongpoints, but I’m hoping I can change that with this Blog. My thanks again goes out to Erik for setting this all up for me and creating the beautiful quetzal template for the site (if you don’t know about these beautiful birds, save yourself a step and see his post from Wikipedia below).

If any of you would like an account so you can post comments on this site, send me an email and I’ll create one for you. Feedback on this site, how it’s set up, and life in general is greatly appreciated, and I hope you enjoy reading about my misadventures! Peace.

Happy Birthday Emily!!!

I’m sorry I couldn’t be there in person. It sounds like it’s really cold there, so maybe I wish you were down here.

This site is yours.  Write on it, change it, make it look different, tell people about it or don’t.  It’s all up to you.

Enjoy, and if you have any questions, just ask!

I love you!

Erik

Quetzals are strikingly colored birds of the trogon family (Trogonidae) found in tropical regions of the Americas. The word “quetzal” was originally used for just the Resplendent Quetzal, Pharomachrus mocinno, the famous long-tailed quetzal of Central America, which is the national symbol of Guatemala. It still often refers to that bird specifically but now also names all the species of the genera Pharomachrus and Euptilotis.

The six quetzal species and their English common names are:

• P. antisianus: Crested Quetzal
• P. auriceps: Golden-headed Quetzal
• P. fulgidus: White-tipped Quetzal
• P. mocinno: Resplendent Quetzal
• P. pavoninus: Pavonine Quetzal
• E. neoxenus: Eared Quetzal

Euptilotis neoxenus is related to Pharomachrus and is called the Eared Quetzal by some authorities, such as the American Ornithologists’ Union, but the Eared Trogon by others.

Etymology or word origin

The name “quetzal” is from Nahuatl quetzalli, “large brilliant tail feather” (American Heritage Dictionary) or “tail coverts of the quetzal” (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary), from the Nahuatl root quetz = “stand up” used to refer to an upstanding plume of feathers.

Pharomachrus is from ancient Greek pharos, “mantle”, and makros, “long”, referring to the wing and tail coverts of the Resplendent Quetzal. (The second h is unexplained.)

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