Always on the Hunt
by Linda Brody
Title
Always on the Hunt
Artist
Linda Brody
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Greater Roadrunner. Always on the alert for prey... Always the hunter.
As I was walking our neighborhood looking for flowers and birds to shoot, I looked across the way, and this roadrunner was crossing the street. As he crossed, he passed right next to me, and continued to the houses across the street. Not sure if he was disturbed by my presence or not, as he clearly was on the hunt for food.
The red brick and green grass bring out those colors in the roadrunner's colorful feathers. Use the Preview Button for a closer look!
The greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) is a long-legged bird in the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, from Southwestern United States and Mexico. The Latin name means "Californian earth-cuckoo". Along with the lesser roadrunner, it is one of two species in the roadrunner genus Geococcyx. This roadrunner is also known as the chaparral cock, ground cuckoo, and snake killer. Their diet in the wild is various invertebrates, lizards, snakes, small mammals, small birds, eggs, seeds, fruit, even carrion.
Roadrunners have 4 toes on each zygodactyl foot; two face forward, and two face backward. The toes are brown in color and have pale gold spots. The upper body is mostly brown with black streaks and sometimes pink spots. The neck and upper breast are white or pale brown with dark brown streaks, and the belly is white. A crest of brown feathers sticks up on the head, and a bare patch of orange and blue skin lies behind each eye; the blue is replaced by white in adult males (except the blue adjacent to the eye), and the orange (to the rear) is often hidden by feathers.
This photograph has been featured in the following Groups:
Lady Photographers
Wildlife 1 A Day
Poetic Poultry
Wild Birds of the World
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August 30th, 2016
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