Greater Roadrunner
Geococcyx californianus

f6.7 @ 1/3200S, ISO:1000, Nikon D3S w 500mm and 1.7X tele-extender

\"Greater Roadrunner,\" Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Greater Roadrunner, taxonomically classified as Geococcyx californianus, meaning \"Californian Earth-cuckoo,\" is a long-legged bird in the cuckoo family, Cuculidae. 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.The breeding habitat is desert and shrubby country in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It can be seen in the US states in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, and rarely in Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri,as well as the Mexican states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Querétaro, México, Puebla, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and San Luis Potosí.

Bosque del Apache NWR, New Mexico

01/16/2013