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Without any warning a form—a bolt of shimmering emerald green—shot up from the forest. It was a large male quetzal spiraling upward with long tail feathers streaming behind. ...continued from page 66 ‘SOUNDS LIKE QUETZALS’ One morning I awoke before dawn. Still in a dreamy state, I could hear faint but distinct calls coming from all sides. It was a sad, slow sort of cooing. I thought it must have been Rosendo’s turkeys digging around for insects and worms outside the cabin. I woke up Verónica to ask her what she thought. “I can’t be sure,” she said, “but it sounds like quetzals.” Adrenaline shot into my blood and I was up and dressed in an instant. In the past I had heard one or sometimes two quetzals singing while exploring the forest, but this sounded like several dozen. We went outside 72 » revuemag.com in the darkness. It was windy and I was startled to find the sky absolutely clear and full of the brightest stars I had ever seen. The calling continued; some of the birds were very near while others seemed to be calling from across the valley. We stood listening until the first brilliant rays of sunlight came over the horizon. It looked like it would be a bright, clear, sunny day, a rare enough event in the cloud forest. Rosendo’s youngest daughter brought us hot coffee and we stood at the edge of the clearing surveying the forest above and below. Over the next few minutes the cooing diminished to almost nothing. Our next
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