Tag: chachalaca

  • The Plain Chachalaca

    The Plain Chachalaca

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    by

    M Kathy Raines
    in ,

    photo by Charles Lorenz Many a chatty person in the Rio Grande Valley answers to the pet name “Chachalaca”—and it’s really no wonder. The birds’ cries of Cha-cha-lac, cha-cha-lac!— a rocking, overlapping call-and-response—resound from trees and shrubs, especially in spring and summertime mornings and evenings. Intermixed with the industrial whine of summer cicadas, nearby humans…