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Today’s Ornithology lesson: The Roadrunner is an omnivore. They eat primarily insects, but also reptiles (including Rattlesnakes), rodents & other small mammals, spiders (including tarantulas), scorpions, centipedes, snails, small birds, eggs, fruits, & seeds. It is also the only known predator of the Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Google that insect for a good read!).
I witnessed one capturing a small bird, then absolutely beating the daylights out of in slamming it into the ground into submission.
They have been clocked running 20 mph.
I shot this photo with my Canon EOS 1100D with a 75-300mm telephoto lens.
First of all thank you for tagging me in this beautiful post, dear @PrestonAZTXMN ; the shot is really beautiful - congratulations.
I have seen many of your Bird-Shots in your other posts - all are really good ones.
As rightly told by our @ErmesT , you tempted me too, to scan through Google - interesting - dear Mr ermest, hope to see your shot soon; kindly remeber to tag me too.
Wow, this is quite a unique looking bird. We have the African cuckoo in South Africa, which is a species from the same family (Cuculidae), but I’ve never seen one in the wild.
Glad to hear that! Spectacular indeed! I’m still getting to know the ins and outs of photography and I wish I’d taken more wildlife photos. Did you happen to capture any South African birds or wildlife?
We have the African cuckoo in South Africa, which is a species from the same family (Cuculidae), but I’ve never seen one in the wild.
Did you happen to capture any South African birds or wildlife?