Desert Roadrunner
by Jamie Frier
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10.000 x 8.000 inches
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Title
Desert Roadrunner
Artist
Jamie Frier
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Roadrunners inhabit the southwestern United States, to parts of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as well as Mexico and Central America. The roadrunner generally ranges in size from 22 to 24 in from tail to beak. The average weight is about 8–15 oz. The roadrunner is a large, slender, black-brown and white-streaked ground bird with a distinctive head crest. It has long legs, strong feet, and an oversized dark bill. The tail is broad with white tips on the three outer tail feathers.
Roadrunners and other members of the cuckoo family have zygodactyl feet. The roadrunner can run at speeds of up to 20 mph and generally prefer sprinting to flying, though it will fly to escape predators.
The roadrunner is an opportunistic omnivore. Its diet normally consists of insects (such as grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, and beetles), small reptiles (such as lizards and snakes, rodents and other small mammals, spiders (including tarantulas), scorpions, centipedes, snails, small birds (and nestlings), eggs, and fruits and seeds like those from prickly pear cactuses and sumacs. Because of its quickness, the roadrunner is one of the few animals that preys upon rattlesnakes.
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May 23rd, 2021
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