# @bbcearth on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCWycs7IEPt
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73494889-bbcearth-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/10d941048d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-11-14T15:02:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BBC Earth (@bbcearth) — https://gondola.cc/bbcearth

## Caption

Meet the Resplendent Queztal 💚
 
Since quetzals don’t have beaks as strong as woodpeckers or toucans to make holes in living wood, they’ll find a hole that’s already been started by another bird and will make it bigger to raise their young. Or, they may make a hole from the softer wood of a rotten tree. Once the mother quetzal lays her eggs, she and the father will take turns incubating them until their eggs hatch.
 
#EarthCapture by @jaimerojo 
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#Quetzal #Animals #Nature #Photography

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## Tags

animals, nature, earthcapture, photography, quetzal

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