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Male Roadrunner having his lizard, running around, calling for a mate but she has never shown up. No one knows if there was even a female in the area. But this poor guy keeps doing it because Spring is just beginning, mating season for most birds.
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Found in deserts, grasslands, and forests, the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) cruises through the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. Its slightly smaller relative, the lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox), is generally found further south. Both birds belong to the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, which also includes anis and malkohas. All the members of the family have zygodactyl feet, with two forward-facing and two backward-facing toes. The arrangement gives roadrunners X-shaped footprints.
According to The Real Roadrunner by Martha Anne Maxon, scientists have clocked the speedy birds running at 15 to 20 miles per hour. Coyotes can run twice as fast as even the fastest roadrunners, but luckily for the birds, coyotes would just as well dine on small rodents, plants, and lizards instead of birds.
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
Our roadrunner pair was hunting around the pond close to the house. I got some really great images. This is the male as he wondered a little bit into the grass looking for a meal. They were not concerned that we were out there. I guess they are becoming familiar with us.
Another "through the window" shot, so not all that clear, but I still liked the detail of the feathers.
Spent a while in the yard yesterday presumably looking for a meal.
Had to get a little creative with this one. This guy was walking across my driveway with his lunch but I didn't have my camera -figures! So I ran back into the house, grabbed my camera, and ran back out. Now he was across the street heading towards the gulley. Rocks were in the entire shot so I blurred out the background rocks.
This is an old picture that I took at the Chandler Veteran's Oasis Park. I saw the roadrunner making its way across a field so I practically ran ahead of it and laid down so that it would have go by me to get where it was going. When it got close, it stopped for a minute to make sure I wasn't going to try anything,
Last in my oldie series and first in a new series of desert denizens.
This Roadrunner was photographed in the Sonoran Desert, north of Tucson, AZ.
Eye to eye with a male Roadrunner who was surprised to see me but also the camera clicking. Members of the Cuckoo family, very hearty birds from the Southwest US and Mexico. Geococcyx californianus
Usually when I spot Roadrunners, they run. This one, however, just sat and let me take as many shots of him as I wanted. He must be a young one.
Greater Roadrunner
Geococcyx californianus
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Good Stewards of Nature
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The Texas State Flower and a Texas Icon. The roadrunners (genus Geococcyx), also known as chaparral birds or chaparral cocks, are two species of fast-running ground cuckoos with long tails and crests. They are found in the southwestern and south-central United States and Mexico,[1][2] usually in the desert. Some have been clocked at 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) while a few have also been clocked up to 27 miles per hour (43 km/h)
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