Another challenge to the quetzals ’ survival involves the location of their nests, which are woodpeckerlike holes that quetzals make between 10 and 60 feet [3 - 20 m] above the ground in old decaying tree trunks.
Vēl viena problēma, kas apdraud kvezalus, ir saistīta ar to, ka kvezali, līdzīgi dzeņiem, savas ligzdas būvē dobumos, ko tie taisa 3 līdz 20 metru augstumā virs zemes vecu, trupes skartu koku stumbros.