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Laughing falcon

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(Zool.) a South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans); - so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laugh.

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We observed the slow progress of the strangler fig, which takes 50 to 60 years to choke the life out of its host tree, saw a laughing falcon in the canopy, watched a green parrot eating fruit in a tree, and thrilled to the sight of a horde of white-faced monkeys turning the leafy cover into their dinner salad.
Nature's way: Costa Rica is small, but it's teeming with forest life by Motavalli, Jim / E
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