Roadrunner

Description:

"The roadrunner is a large, black-and-white, mottled ground bird with a distinctive head crest. It has strong feet, a long, white-tipped tail and an oversized bill."

Habitat:

"The roadrunner inhabits open, flat or rolling terrain with scattered cover of dry brush, chaparral or other desert scrub." This one was hanging out at our camp site.

Notes:

"The legendary roadrunner is famous for its distinctive appearance, its ability to eat rattlesnakes and its preference for scooting across the American deserts.Roadrunners are ground cuckoos, are any of about 15 species of birds constituting the subfamily Neomorphinae of the Cuckoo Family (Cuculidae), noted for terrestrial habits. There are 11 New World species, 3 of which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds."