After setting up our campsite at the Borrego Palm Canyon Campground in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, this little greater roadrunner visited our site looking for something to eat apparently and seemed to be hoping that we might feed it a snack. He hung around our site for a long time and got really close to us at times, perhaps as close as two and a half feet.
Roadrunners are members of the cuckoo family and prefer running along the ground rather than flying. They got their common name from their habit of running along side wagons in the Old West waiting for the wagon wheels to scare out a lizard or a snake that it could then pounce upon for an easy meal.
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