Sounds of the Chachalaca
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HARLINGEN, RGV - The South Texas Birding Festival is coming up on Nov. 6, 2019. Birders from all over the United States and the World converge in Harlingen for the Festival.
If you look at a map of the United States you will see that the Rio Grande Valley is a sort of \\u201cfunnel\\u201d into Central and South America. What this means is that birds from all over the United States and Canada travel through the Rio Grande Valley as they migrate South. I have spoken to Birders that show me their \\u201cLife Lists\\u201d of birds they had never seen before they came to the Birding Festival.
Since was a kid, I\\u2019ve been listening to the sound of the \\u201cChachalaca,\\u201d a bird that most people in the United States have never heard. In South Texas parlance we frequently refer to a noisy person as a \\u201cChachalaca.\\u201d If you heard it you would understand why it is a sort of natural noisemaker. South Texas is the Northernmost range of the Chacalaca.\\xa0
Click on the link above to hear the Chacalaca. We\\u2019ll see you at the Birding Festival. \\xa0
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