{"id":340,"date":"2013-02-06T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=340"},"modified":"2013-02-09T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:08:47","slug":"male-resplendent-quetzal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Male Resplendent Quetzal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=341#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-341\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-341\" alt=\"Male Resplendent Quetzal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-2-1024x846.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-2-1024x846.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-2-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-2.jpg 1452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resplendent Quetzals <em>(Pharomachrus mocinno)\u00a0<\/em>are part of the trogon family, and while the females of this dimorphic species do look like other trogons, male Resplendent Quetzals are, well, quite resplendent! I&#8217;ve always thought they looked more like elaborate women&#8217;s hats than birds, with their frizzy heads, extra long upper-tail coverts, and fancy shoulders. Resplendent\u00a0Quetzals live in limited regions of the central highlands, and I&#8217;ve only seen them in one area near the upper Savegre River valley where these dandies were photographed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=342#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-342\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-342\" alt=\"Male Resplendent Quetzal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-3-504x1024.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-3-504x1024.jpg 504w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-3-147x300.jpg 147w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/quetzal-male-3.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resplendent Quetzals (Pharomachrus mocinno)\u00a0are part of the trogon family, and while the females of this dimorphic species do look like other trogons, male Resplendent Quetzals are, well, quite resplendent! I&#8217;ve always thought they looked more like elaborate women&#8217;s hats than birds, with their frizzy heads, extra long upper-tail coverts, and fancy shoulders. Resplendent\u00a0Quetzals live in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,22,6,62,55,12],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-green","tag-red","tag-savegre-river","tag-trogons","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}