Road Runner

Road Runner
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see cuckoo.
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Cuckoo - common name for members of the extensive avian family Cuculidae, including the ani and the roadrunner widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions.

Road runner
Iolo's Secret Life of Birds
Iolo Williams looks at little ringed plover nesting in the Towy Valley in West Wales.

Road Runner & Wyle E. Coyote
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Road runners excel in catching snakes, and garters are no exception, quickly dispatched through vigorous use of the road runners beak and feet.

Every child who has ever seen a cartoon featuring Wile E Coyote and Road Runner has to have wondered if poor Wile E ever had a fair shot at catching the Road Runner. According to Mark Lockwood's Basic Texas Birds: A Field Guide, with or without Wile.

FASTEST ON LAND
The fastest-running bird is the ostrich which can run up to 43 mph (70 kph). In contrast, the road runner (a type of cuckoo) runs about 12 mph (19 kph)
FASTEST SWIMMERS
Gentoo Penguins are the fastest swimming birds.

Coyote and Road Runner.
* Geococcyx sp. is the only real predator of the tarantula hawk wasp.
* The mascots of California State University, Bakersfield and University of Texas at San Antonio are roadrunners.

See also: Roadrunner, Cuckoo, Snake, Lizard, Greater Roadrunner