These birds live in humid, tropical forests, with the resplendent quetzal, which is considered sacred by the Aztec and Mayan cultures, residing in cloud forests. Quetzals face habitat loss and are ...

It is unclear exactly how the headdress, made of hundreds of long quetzal feathers and more than 1,000 gold plaques, ended up in Austria, where it is on display at a museum in Vienna. Historians ...