Shoot it with a net gun. Pin it in place with stone dino gates. Tranq it!

If you already have a quetzal build a trap on it with a trapdoor on the top. Fly infront of the wild quetzal and make it fly inside. Unmount at a slight angle and the wild quetzal will get stuck. Now you can stand there mid flight and tame it.

Notice:

1 dont move your quetzal or the wild one could slip out, even when asleep.

2 add gates and a ramp to lure in ground animals.

3 gate to the front to trap smaller birds (just fly faster than them and "net" them like a jellyfish.

4 add ceilings around the trap as a platform to move on.

5 build the trapdoor and front gate in a way so they are open while you are flying (auto open and close).

6 add a ramp or path so you can get to your quetzal and mount it while flying.

Personally i added a fridge and bed to store kibble and let me spawn there.

Give a platform saddle 1 or more ankys and you have a metal making machine

Use a tapejara if your trying to tmae a quetz omg it's saved me a lot of tranq ammo

Three stepped method of how to tame a high level quetzal on mobile solo:

1. Tame a tapejara and pump its speed

2. Fly up to a quetzal (preferably low level female) on your tapejara, get on the passenger seat, whistle your tapejara to attack the quetzal and start tranqing. Whistle passive if your tapejara gets too close. When the quetzal goes down, quickly secure the area. You can use spiked walls. Once you get your first quetzal, pump speed, stamina, and maybe weight.

3. Kill every quetzal you see until a high level one spawns. Put a platform saddle on your low lvl quetzal, build a 3x3x3 box on its back with one side opened. Fly ahead of the high lvl quetzal and wait for it to enter the box. Then build walls/doorframe to complete the box and now you have a trapped high lvl quetzal and you can tranq it. However, once knocked out, the quetzal will most likely glitch through and fall to the ground, so make sure you avoid trapping quetzals over dangerous areas or water.

Just got a lvl 194 female quetzal like this.

In my book:

BEST

DINO.

EVER

Using this with doed/ank is a really good way of collecting resources, pump stam/weight

If you knockout Quetzal and it drops into water, know two things: 1 it’s gonna drown if u don’t get it out, and 2 if it does drown take implant and resurrect it try again..

Make a metal box and pick up creatures and just drop them in for easy tames and they can't fight back

If the one u are taming is 30 or below(level) use one Kibble and one Balm, insta taming, Works for all Difficulties, but better at EASY

Net it, trap it with gates around it, Trang it

Hit em with that net gun. Then shoot them in the head with shocking tranq darts or reg tranq darts and baboom you have a quetzal.

The Quetzal is a behemoth of a creature with base stats that top the charts (health, stamina, weight, and torpor). The Quetzal's platform saddle make it an excellent choice for a mobile air base or even a caravan for transporting and gathering metal and other supplies on harder to reach areas. While its melee strength isn't as high as some might expect, its health and ability to carry weapons make it suitable to use as a war bird. Its preference for Rex Kibble make it difficult to tame, and even more so difficult to knock out in the air.~ Steel Cookie 123

I was using a rocket launcher in the redwoods and I found one but I accidentally blew it up😔😔😔😔

How I tamed a quetzal is by riding a tapajrea sitting in the fount then ordering it to follow a quetzal while constantly shooting it with a long neck rifle with some tranq darts

1.put a single honey on the last on your tool bar.

2.fly above its head and drop the honey, it will lose interest after about 10 to 15 seconds, keep doing that till it reaches the ground.”it takes about 5 honey”

3.trap it with 2 large gates one side on it’s neck and one behind it’s wings.

And you’re done.

The best KO method is to just chase it down riding a griffin, which is the only vanilla flyer that you can use weapons while riding. Alternatively you can "ride" a wyvern by standing on its back without actually mounting it and using whistle commands, you can also mount a tapejara's passenger seat and do that without the slight risk of falling like with a wyvern. Another alternative is to have a friend carrying you with a stamina leveled pteranodon (argentavis might work but it's a bit slow), but be careful not to accidentally shoot your pteranodon!

This tip is good for mobile find the big bird then kill take its implant revive in box tame it done

If you cant find any at the red obelisk check the snowy mountainous areas

Quetzals will most likely spawn inbetween Craggs Island and the Red Obelisk, around 85,20, its spawn is just above the river that flows through the side of the island