Tourists delight in the strange chirping echoes they produce when they clap their hands at the base of the steep staircases that sweep up the face of Kukulkan, a 1,300-year-old Mayan pyramid in the ...

Clapping hands at the steps of a Mayan pyramid produces echoes that sound like the call of a forest bird, the quetzal. At a meeting this week in New York, researchers presented new evidence that the ...

The Monomet Conservation Sciences has released its 2025 State of the Birds report. The report reveals accelerating declines in bird populations across the continent of North America. These declines ...

As the first light of dawn touched the calm waters of Lake Atitlán, our family embarked on a quest to see one of the world’s most hard-to-find and beautiful birds—the dazzling quetzal. According to ...

Guatemala is home to one of the world's most pristine cloud forests and largest remaining habitat of the highly threatened quetzal bird. But, decades of natural resource exploitation is starting to ...