guacharos

He answered that in another part of the country, where a similar cavern exists inhabited by the same birds, they are called guacharos; that in that other cavern -- the cave of Caripe, as he called it -- thousands of birds exist, and that the Indians take the young birds for the sake of the oil which they contain.

The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The race of the guacharos would have been long ago extinct, had not several circumstances contributed to its preservation.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

‘To go and join the guacharos,’ is with them a phrase signifying to rejoin their fathers, to die.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Tartarus of the Greeks; and the guacharos, which hover over the rivulet, uttering plaintive cries, remind us of the Stygian birds.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The Indians showed us the nests of the guacharos by fixing a torch to the end of a long pole.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

After several fruitless attempts M. Bonpland succeeded in killing a couple of guacharos, which, dazzled by the light of the torches, seemed to pursue us.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Young guacharos have been sent to the port of Cumana, and have lived there several days without taking any nourishment, the seeds offered to them not suiting their taste.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

We could scarcely persuade ourselves that the name of the Grotto of Caripe had hitherto been unknown in Europe; * for the guacharos alone might have sufficed to render it celebrated.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

As the roof became lower the cries of the guacharos were more and more shrill.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The Grotto of Caripe is the Tartarus of the Greeks; and the guacharos, which hover over the rivulet, uttering plaintive cries, remind us of the

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814