Bentsen Rio Grande Birding: Plain Chachalaca

A Plain Chachalaca, photographed at Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park in January of this year:

Did you know that there are four species of chachalaca in Mexico?

The Plain Chachalaca ranges from Central America up to the Yucatan, and up the east coast of Mexico extending just into the United States in the Rio Grande Valley, the only Chachalaca to be found in the United States.