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- noun Plural form of
chachalaca .
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Farmers like to have chachalacas around and have even used them to guard domestic chickens.
5 Chicken 1991
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Although excitable and noisy, chachalacas become remarkably tame when fed by people.
5 Chicken 1991
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Close relatives of the chachalacas, guans5 are glossy black birds about the size of small geese.
5 Chicken 1991
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Curassows are also relatives of guans and chachalacas, but they are even larger - up to 1 m tall and 5 kg in weight.
5 Chicken 1991
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As night came on, the trees along the river's bank were thronged with _chachalacas_, which almost deafened us with their querulous screams.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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I discovered birding on a previous trip, as a hiker enchanted by the anthropomorphic kingdom of jays that are gloriously green instead of dull blue; fierce mohawk-coiffed kingfishers chasing mates along the riverbanks; screeching rooster-size chachalacas bullying in the brush; and black-masked great kiskadees that blow their cool by singing like squeaky toys.
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I discovered birding on a previous trip, as a hiker enchanted by the anthropomorphic kingdom of jays that are gloriously green instead of dull blue; fierce mohawk-coiffed kingfishers chasing mates along the riverbanks; screeching rooster-size chachalacas bullying in the brush; and black-masked great kiskadees that blow their cool by singing like squeaky toys.
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I discovered birding on a previous trip, as a hiker enchanted by the anthropomorphic kingdom of jays that are gloriously green instead of dull blue; fierce mohawk-coiffed kingfishers chasing mates along the riverbanks; screeching rooster-size chachalacas bullying in the brush; and black-masked great kiskadees that blow their cool by singing like squeaky toys.
NYT > Travel By ELAINE GLUSAC 2010
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I discovered birding on a previous trip, as a hiker enchanted by the anthropomorphic kingdom of jays that are gloriously green instead of dull blue; fierce mohawk-coiffed kingfishers chasing mates along the riverbanks; screeching rooster-size chachalacas bullying in the brush; and black-masked great kiskadees that blow their cool by singing like squeaky toys.
NYT > Home Page By ELAINE GLUSAC 2010
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Lunch for the chachalacas, vibrant green jays and orange-hooded Altamira orioles consisted of peanut butter smeared on feeders at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, about 47 miles back downriver from Roma.
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