The photo above was made by Candy McManiman in the early morning at the airstrip of the Raleigh Falls nature reserve in Suriname and the one just below the text by Foek Chin Joe, also in Suriname. The chachalaca makes a characteristic sound, that resembles its surinamese name: wakago. The bird makes a loud noise mostly in the morning or evening, at first a calm "wakago" but then it almost explodes and after that it softens again. It is very shy, so you don't very often get to see it.
Photo below was made in the Paramaribo zoo (Ribot).
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
| Distribution in Suriname (explanation) | |
| Coastal area |  |
| Savanna | |
| Forests | |
| Mountain forests | |
| Sipalawini savanna |  |
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