From the archive: This story originally published in 2018 for Desert Magazine. No bird is so odd and well known as the roadrunner. Unlike most birds with which we are familiar, a roadrunner runs ...

The greater roadrunner is native to the American Southwest and parts of northern Mexico. But now it’s turning up more frequently in new areas. Photograph By Konrad Wothe/Picture Press/Redux About a ...

The roadrunner — more specifically the greater roadrunner, scientific name Geococcyx californianus — was declared New Mexico's state bird in 1949. According to the National Audubon Society, ...

From the archive: This story originally published in 2018 for Desert Magazine. No bird is so odd and well known as the roadrunner. Unlike most birds with which we are familiar, a roadrunner runs ...

Martin and Chris find out that even though the roadrunner prefers to run, it can also fly! Chris measures how fast the roadrunner runs and concludes that it is one of the fastest running birds in the ...

One of the most famous and beloved birds of the Southwest is the Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus). These birds are about two feet long from the tip of their bill to the tip of their tail.