Pretty much everyone knows what a chicken sounds like when it is clucking. There aren't as many of the fowls here in the wild as back in Kauai, and when we hear that clucking sound, it usually portends something not so nice.
The tercepello (fer-de-lance) also clucks pretty close to what a chicken sounds like. The fer-de-lance is a pretty deadly snake that is found throughout Costa Rica. They cluck in hopes of luring smaller critters in and then it's feeding time.
So, if you're hiking around in Costa Rica, and you hear that distinctive clucking noise, it probably isn't a bird.
Of course, if some of you have come down to stay with us, you would have known that by now, and while we do hear them, they are farther off of the trails.
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