Everything about Quetzal totally explained
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 bird 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:
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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