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 ...

Joseph explores Guatemala’s Mayan legacy at the temples of Tikal and Yaxha. Joseph combines the legendary with the natural when he explores Guatemala’s Mayan legacy at the temples of Tikal and Yaxha ...

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 ...

Raúl Fernández’s whistle resonates through the wild avocado trees just off the main road in San Gerardo de Dota, a small mountain village where birds far outnumber humans. There is one particular bird ...