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Roadrunner

State Bird of New Mexico

ROADRUNNER.
[Geococcyx californianus.]

New Mexico's state bird is the Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus).

Officially adopted March 16, 1949. It was adopted under the name "Chaparral Bird". In Spanish, it is called "El Correcaminos".

The comical roadrunner prefers running to flying and has been clocked at speeds of 15 miles per hour. They are approximately 22 inches in length and their diet consists of insects, lizards, centipedes, mice and snakes.

The pages shown depicting the official 50 US State birds were drawn from : "Audubon's Birds of America" an 1840 "First Octavo Edition" of John J. Audubon's complete seven volume text. A special thank-you goes to Mr. Richard Buonanno, who originally converted the Bird's of America complete text, with references, to HTML format.

ROADRUNNER. [Geococcyx californianus.]

ROADRUNNER.
[Geococcyx californianus.]