Should I Cross the Street

by Linda Brody

Title

Should I Cross the Street

Artist

Linda Brody

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Should I Cross the Street? Gotta Keep Movin' On...... Searching.... where am I? Looking for food.... Who is that looking at me? In a hurry.... gotta go. Says this Greater Roadrunner.

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 I was able to get this shot. Not quite sure if he really was bothered by me or not, as he was clearly on the hunt. He came to another street corner and paused, clearly debating which direction to go next.

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:
10+
Kingdom Anamalia
FAA Bird Portraits
A Birding Group - Wings
Poetic Poultry

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March 12th, 2019

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