This can be a tricky bird to see because they are only found in Venezuela and a small area of Northeast Colombia in the Santa Marta range. The latter is where I saw mine, specifically near the famous El Dorado Lodge. The funny story on this one is that our tour leader climbed a precarious lookout tower with missing ladder rungs to get a look above the canopy. He saw the the Quetzal and shouted down to us to carefully climb the tower. Before he could finish his sentence, I somehow sprang up to the top of the tower and appeared behind him in less than a couple seconds. He said it was the fastest he had ever seen someone climb a ladder.
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