Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula)
Jive turkey pose! This noisy and unsuspecting chachalaca was found and photographed just as it noticed me with this great surprised pose and look in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in near Weslaco, Texas. At the northern tip of its range, this large upland game bird can be found from the southern tip of Texas, throughout Mexico and south to Central America. Noisy as other members of the galliform family (turkeys, chickens, pheasants, grouse, etc.), the name chachalaca means "chatterbox" - a fitting name!
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Animalia, Aves, Chachalaca Norteña, Chordata, Cracidae, Estero Llano Grande State Park, Galliformes, Hidalgo County, Ortalis, Ortalis vetula, RGV, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Weslaco, animal, beige, bird, birdwatching, brown, buff, chachalaca, fauna, fowl, galliform, game bird, gamebird, landfowl, natural, nature, ornithology, plain chachalaca, vertebrate, wild, wildlife, winter
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- Upland Game Birds
