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You can see where the roadrunner gets it's name. For whatever reason, I liked this shot. I like the running action
This is a desert bird. They prey on many things, but moisture-rich mammals and reptiles supply them with some water in an otherwise arid environment. According the the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, they eat a variety of poisonous prey including venomous lizards and scorpions to to no ill effect. Apparently they will sometimes hunt rattle snakes in tandem. One distracts the snake by jumping and flapping while the other roadrunner sneaks up and pits it’s head then bashes the snake against a rock. Ok, here’s the gross part - if the snake is too long to swallow whole, the roadrunner will walk around with a bit of the snake hanging out of its mouth, swallowing the snake a bit at a time as the part of the snake in the stomach digests. That to me is just crazy
Roadrunners are fun birds to shoot. One normally only sees them, you guessed it, running across the road! I saw a few when I was wandering on my own in South Texas but saw many more at the ranch blinds. This one snatched a bug and I was just able to snatch a picture of it. (Geococcyx Californianus) (Sony a9iii, 200-600 lens @ 588mm, 1/3200 second, f/6.3, ISO 800)
This roadrunner was on the back patio just a few feet from the door. Got several shots through the glass before it was on it's way.
Roadrunner - on the road - just where one would expect to see him. I love that bit of iridescence at the tip of his tail feathers.
Meep meep! The Greater Roadrunner is a member of the Cuckoo Family. Very tough birds. Geococcyx californianus
Roadrunner. Sonoran Desert, southwest of Tucson, AZ, USA. A member of the cuckoo family. No crop. My side yard.
La Quinta, Californie
Plein cadre. Agrandir pour voir les détails.
Lors d'une de mes visites chez l'oncologue de mon beau-frère je demeurais à l'extérieur du bâtiment durant les traitements. Il n'y avait rien de construit en face de la clinique qu'un immense lot à l'état sauvage que je me suis mis à arpenter en espérant bien y découvrir quelques oiseaux. Mon souhait fut exaucé car je suis tombé face à face c'est le cas de le dire avec ce magnifique Grand Géocoucou, qui m'a convié à une partie de cache-cache. C'est qu'ils sont rapide ces oiseaux, j'ai vite réalisé qu'il avait une sortie de secours qu'il affectionnait, je l'ai donc embusqué... Le résultat fut une rencontre inoubliable avec ce magnifique oiseau.
La Quinta, California
Full frame. Enlarge to see the details.
During one of my visits to the oncologist of my brother-in-law, I staid outside the building during is treatments. There was nothing built in front of the clinic but that immense wild desert lot that I began to walk into hoping to find some birds. It was a cloudy and misty day. My wish was granted, because I came face to face it not to say the lest with this magnificent Greater Roadrunner, who invited me for a hide-and-seek game on is turf. They sure are fast these birds, but I realize very fast that he had a prefer escape route, so I embouch him ...
The result was a encounter I will always remember.
We encountered this roadrunner while hiking through the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. It flew into a mesquite tree near the trail.
This Roadrunner liked this spot and made several jumps from the same position to take what I considered a lookout position at the top of the tree. Roadrunners are difficult subjects without the aid of a blind and water to attract them. They are quite fun to watch as they skitter around like they own the place. Well, I guess they do1. (Greater Roadrunner - Geococcyx Californianus) (Sony a1ii, 70-200 lens @ 193mm, f/4.5, 1/4000 second, ISO 1600)
Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) catching insects in the grass in Falcon State Park, Roma, Texas. Capable of running 30 miles per hour (48 kph), but doesn't fly often.
Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico
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A roadrunner shows up at an outdoor bar & grill that was packed and hung around waiting for snacks - San Felipe, Baja - Mexico on the Sea of Cortez.
I took this and the other photos in this south Texas bird series as a participant in Brian Loflin's South Texas Bird Photography workshop.
Probably on the lookout for a coyote! Saw this Greater Roadrunner in a farm field this evening. Note the crest is slightly raised.
Continuing my national park wildlife series with this Greater Roadrunner found in Saguaro National Park, Arizona.
This species has a smaller cousin, appropriately called the Lesser Roadrunner. The GR is found in southwestern U.S. states and a large swath of Mexico. The LR is not found in the U.S. but in much of Central America.
This greater roadrunner was sitting on a small hill watching the world go by, including noisy sandhill cranes and a red-tailed hawk.
While much is made of its speed and ability to outwit coyotes, roadrunners are also capable of capturing and consuming rattlesnakes, dodging the venomous reptile's rapid strikes and piercing it with its sharp slightly hooked bill.
The yellow background is provided by a cottonwood tree in its autumn raiment.
Running through Bluebonnets. Maybe he heard Wile E. Coyote.
The shot before this is a better closeup.
This silly cuckoo decided the dogs & I posed no threat & was quite interactive. I’d hear it around the yard for a couple of days, but yesterday it decided to introduce itself. It’s welcome to hang out.
Common in varied wooded and forested habitats, parks, gardens, farmland with hedges and scattered trees. Forms flocks in winter; often visits garden feeders. Handsome, brightly colored male is distinctive, with bluish cowl, pink face and breast, black-and-white wing pattern (colors muted in winter). Female much drabber but shares male pattern; especially note the complex wing pattern. Both sexes have white outer tail feathers, often striking in flight such as when flushed. (eBird)
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We encountered chaffinchs (another introduced species) over much of the country, but did not stop to photograph them too often since our focus was on native birds. This female, though, was in a parking area so I took advantage of the opportunity.
Victoria Domain Road, Marlborough, NZ. March 2024.
Roadrunner Birding Tours.
this little feller was huffing and a puffing in the 100 degree heat and didn't seem to mind me standing about 10 feet from him