Roadrunner Fun Facts

This is about real roadrunners, not that erstwhile new roadrunner species I wrote about some years back.

Roadrunner feeding the nestling
(James W. Cornett, Desert Magazine)

From the Desert Sun, written by James W. Cornett of Desert Magazine: “Why do Roadrunners disappear from the desert each winter. This ecologist has a guess.”

It addresses questions like:

• How many kinds of roadrunners are there?
• Can they fly, or just run?
• How fast can they run?
• What do they eat?
• How do they deal with snakes?
• Do they enjoy visiting humans in their homes?
• And most critically, do they migrate south for the winter, and if not, where are they?

You will enjoy it.
[Chuck Almdale]