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With a glottal stop at the end, chachalacah was an alternate name for the bird known as the chachalahtli. All these words likely arose as an onomatopoeia for the four-noted cackle of the plain chachalaca (O. vetula). [10] The genus contains 16 species. [11]
The birds in this family are particularly vocal, with the chachalacas taking their name from the sound of their call. [9] Cracids range in size from the little chachalaca ( Ortalis motmot ), at as little as 38 cm (15 in) and 350 g (12 oz), to the great curassow ( Crax rubra ), at nearly 1 m (39 in) and 4.3 kg (9.5 lb).
Caramac is the brand name for a caramel-based confectionery created by Mackintosh's, and is manufactured by Nestlé. [1] It was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1959 and was discontinued in 2023 and brought back for a limited period in July 2024. The name is derived from the syllabic abbreviation of Caramel and Mackintosh. [2]
With common bird populations on the decline, these birds are “the canary in the coal mine,” said Ken Rosenberg, an applied conservation scientist emeritus at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...
The plain chachalaca (Ortalis vetula) is a large bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae.It breeds in tropical and subtropical environments from mezquital thickets in the Rio Grande Valley in southernmost Texas, United States to northernmost Costa Rica.
The limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is a large wading bird related to rails and cranes, and the only extant species in the family Aramidae. It is found mostly in wetlands in warm parts of the Americas , from Florida to northern Argentina, but has been spotted as far north as Wisconsin [ 3 ] and Southern ...
Crested caracara, Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge Crested caracara (C. plancus) in flight Caracaras are birds of prey in the family Falconidae.They are traditionally placed in subfamily Polyborinae with the forest falcons, [1] but are sometimes considered to constitute their own subfamily, Caracarinae, [2] or classified as members of the true falcon subfamily, Falconinae. [3]
Ecologically, the seriema is the South American counterpart of the African secretary bird. They feed on insects, snakes, lizards, frogs, young birds, and rodents, with small amounts of plant food (including maize and beans). They often associate with grazing livestock, probably to take insects the animals disturb.