waracabra

plural waracabras · alternative warakabra

1. Guyanatrumpeter (bird)

   Frequently the growling of our lorry would frighten up coveys of waracabra—black jungle birds somewhat resembling guinea fowls, but with larger and longer legs.

   1953, Robert H. Pierson, Paddles Over the Kamarang: The Story of the Davis Indians, page 7

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   […] it may be a lithe, graceful ocelot, so intent on stalking an unsuspecting bush-turkey or a sleepy monkey that your nearness is unnoticed; or again it may be a flock of trumpet-birds or waracabras feeding and dancing in some tiny open glade.

   1929, Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, Thirty Years in the Jungle, page 115

   The Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is distributed north of the Amazon River, in Ecuador, Colombia, south Venezuela, north-east Brazil, north-eastern Peru and the Guianas. Locally the species is known as ‘Waracabra‘.

   2011 September 18, “Grey-winged Trumpeter”, in Stabroek News