Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No bird is so odd and well known as the roadrunner. Unlike most birds with which we are familiar, a roadrunner runs rather than ...

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 ...

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.

The desert in the U.S. southwest is the natural habitat of the Road Runner, a high-octane, cartoon bird who runs so fast on the desert's roadways that he leaves a trail of flame or causes pavement to ...

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 ...