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Greater Roadrunner

Geococcyx californianus

Photo by RobertShinn
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

A large ground dwelling cuckoo

Habitat:

Scrub

Notes:

Several lived in our neighborhood & regularly passed thru', darting this way then that, on occasion giving the long tail feathers a pump...Once in a while if feeling threatened they would fly up into a tree..beep!...beep!

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PublishedAugust 17, 2011

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