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The original design featured the country's national birds-the scarlet ibis and the cocrico-which were removed and replaced with crystal maple leaves for the Toronto gala.
torontolife.com Ashleigh Ryan 2010
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For that occasion, however, the Queen's personal assistant and senior dresser, Angela Kelly, had jazzed up the side and hem with appliqués of T&T national birds, the scarlet ibis and cocrico, and a wild poinsettia.
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The Ibis, locally known as the flamingo, is the national bird of Trinidad, while the cocrico, also called the chachalaca, a name which sounds like a performance on
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
reesetee commented on the word cocrico
See also guacharaca. Both are local names (guacharaca in Colombia and northern Venezuela, cocrico in Tobago) for the Rufous-Vented Chachalaca.
February 5, 2010