Greater Roadrunner | Rattlesnakes... no big deal!

[@truegrit7288]

My parents live in the Mojave desert. They had many roadrunners that hung around their home. Mom would often feed them meal worms and eventually she had several that would show up regularly and tap their beaks against the sliding glass window when a snack was desired. Once when I was visiting my parents I walked into their house through the slider to get some worms out of the fridge leaving the slider open. I was surprised to see a roadrunner had followed me inside her house and run right up to the fridge! She was very animated while waiting for her tasty treat! I know she was a female because after her chicks were born she would stop by daily, bringing along her adorable little family for a little extra protein! . By far my favorite birds. Extremely intelligent and entertaining. . They also keep the rattlesnake population in check around my parents place.

[@josealbert4596]

these birds have serious problems whith coyotes

[@Trapper4265]

They are all over Albuquerque, NM, especially on the west Mesa. I loved seeing them. They are fascinating Birds of Prey.

[@Skull-in-the-house]

They are all over the Vegas valley too coming from back east I was so excited to see my 1st one :D

[@user-ft3vm6ns6g]

I live in Phoenix Az. Have a family of 3 in my area. 1 of them sleeps in my garage every nite. I feed them dried meal worms. AWESOME BIRDS

[@bigl6322]

Title made me think I was gonna see some facing off with some rattlesnakes, but it was interesting and informative.

[@davidb6576]

The "and of course, coyotes" was snuck in so smoothly...

[@jameshenderson3238]

An extremely informative video.....well done.

[@waqqodonkey]

seen a few here in El Paso, it's cool to see a ferocious little bird!

[@iuutoob]

In the Mojave desert one day about 6 years ago, I was squatting on the ground, not doing much. Forearms were resting on knees. I looked up to see a roadrunner inspecting me from inches away, face to face. I figured that he could not attack (if somehow he had wanted to attack) with my hands being between us. I said, "Hello, Mr Roadrunner." He moved away.

[@coyotescactus1448]

How do you know it was a he?

[@mythbuster4880]

Why would you think a roadrunner would attack you? 😂

[@soundminedd]

Relaxing and informative ❤❤❤

[@michaelswami]

Lived in Eastern Texas for 38 years. Saw my first Greater Roadrunner yesterday.

[@Cobbmtngirl]

I love them! Thanks for sharing. I was incredibly surprised to see one two times in my area in Northern California, Lake County.

[@Pack.Leader]

This was so well done. I've lived in Las Vegas, NV, Kingman, AZ and now southwest NM and roadrunners are scarce, though I know they are out there. I never knew about their stripe of color on their heads. Red, white and blue ! Maybe they should have been our national bird. (Shared.)

[@bobsmith6544]

I live in Vegas and see them all the time! But my complex is surrounded by a golf course that's next to a natural wash so we get ALL the wildlife - except for tortoises and anything bigger than a coyote. :]

[@capturingnaturewithsandip]

Nice and beautiful video. Thanks for sharing. Big Like 24

[@michaelcerkez3895]

While driving tractor trailer across Arizona one ran in front of me. I was doing about 65 mph, that bird ran right in front of my truck and to the other side of the road. Man that thing was really moving.

[@annwaters9484]

I have at least one pair living on my property in southeastern AZ. They just hatched 3 chicks and it's fun watching them learning to fly.

[@jackvoss5841]

The only bird that says, “MEEP!! MEEP!!!” Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

[@bert-qu3iq]

They are also major shareholders of ACME INDUSTRIES stock.

[@SFNightOwl]

I live east of Dallas. We have a family of lesser road runners living down our road. They're magic when we sight them sunning themselves in the morning. I swear they think they're t-rexes.

[@markseibert6369]

I lived in Carlsbad, CA and we had a RR who ran down the street, looking for lizards. That bird could run and glide up onto roofs without effort and he could cover a block long street in about 10 minutes. Fond memory.

[@SOP83]

I see these daily at work. One was just standing 6' from me, eating a lizard, yesterday. One of my favorite birds, they are like a mini T Rex.

[@bernieshort6311]

I’ve never seen a Roadrunner because I live in the UK. I have extensively travelled the world and still have not seen one. The thing I like about the bird is that unlike other members of the cuckoo family, Roadrunners are actually good parents. A fact you didn't mention.

[@sonyascott6114]

A true birder.Suberb video.

[@Gary-ce2hk]

My aunt fed hamburger balls to them. They would peck on sliding glass door for a treat. Also left quail alone. Cool birds

[@julieduree9210]

Mine won’t touch them,he likes mealy worms.

[@pango-y8j]

They eat baby Quail. Where do you get your facts Do you live in Tucson 😂 Arizona Sonoran desert 🌵 Ido!!!

[@pango-y8j]

Do you have road runner in your yard. I doubt it 😅

[@CountryB4Party]

They come through my yard hunting lizards all the time in Prescott AZ.

[@gs1100ed]

Cooked hamburger? Or uncooked?

[@cleanslate2004]

I wouldn't have guessed that a Road Runner could out duel a Rattlesnake, but I also used to think that way about the Mongoose vs the Cobra & the Honey Badger vs almost anything.

[@dianestiner8602]

Another wonderfull video ! You teach so many things I am never tired of watching your footages 👌. So many birds we don't have here in 🇨🇭 😒

[@allthingsbirdie]

Thanks so much, Diane! I'm glad you're enjoying them!

[@MarkDeChambeau-lo1rt]

The neatest thing I ever saw was when a roadrunner ran across the road in front of me, bounded up the side of the ditch to my left, then to a rock, over a fence and up into a tree. Perhaps I am wrong but, I often wonder if this species is a good representation of how therapod dinosaurs got around.

[@1865Highst]

Perhaps if dinosaur bones had been hollow.

[@bobsmith6544]

I live in a complex surrounded by a golf course in Vegas. I often sit near the course and watch all the animals. Roadrunners are the most interesting by far - except for the red pigeon that thinks it is a quail lol. Watching then ambush prey is super cool.

[@mirrage42]

In the spring, the males call for females and to establish territory. They sound like an old fashioned clock winding down with repeated “cu-cu-cu” calls, starting loud and fast then dwindling in volume and speed. They usually do this standing on something high, like a fence post.

[@bobsmith6544]

Yeah, I've been hearing them every morning from my condo in Vegas.

[@Ziptie258]

My biggest dream is to find a roadrunner feather been looking for a while.

[@michaelgautreaux3168]

Yes as far as seeing Roadrunners regularly. Most amazing thing was watching them run up a tree...multiple times lol. Yes the trunk was @ a 40 to 45 ° angle from the ground but the bird went up the tree! 😉 The "Wylie" jab was GR8!

[@bob7975]

Their two-toes forward two-toes back foot design is as good for climbing as it is for running. Some of the strongest climbers in the bird world have this kind of foot: owls, woodpeckers, and of course, parrots.

[@tonyincs]

I saw one traverse my M4 range on Carson one time. Never knew we had them in CO until that day!

[@jessevan7652]

I've always loved birds ! 🐦 Amen 🙏

[@scottsatterthwaite4073]

We lived in a log cabin in an Ozark Glade in Southern Missouri and would see these interesting birds running around.

[@travisbicklejr]

Just recently discovered and subscribed to your channel. Your videos are great! Thanks so much!

[@allthingsbirdie]

Thank you! Very much appreciated.

[@CuriousMouseExploration]

Jy brother sees them around his home, though less since he's gotten a dog. I've seen them around that part of the county more than our area - me thinks they like the undeveloped area behind fences better. In Tucson, we'd hear rattling sounds when we were in our timeshare and the last day of our trip, we finally saw them running thru the decorative lava rock planters. We weren't sure who was making the sounds thru the rocks until then. Cool.

[@ericpierce3660]

They definitely look and act like mini-dinosaurs.

[@SlimyLotusKing]

When I was sitting outside for lunch one time in Tucson I saw one chase a smaller bird up the side of a tree. Truly bad ass birds!

[@mrwest5552]

i enjoyed this, including the dialog balloons.

[@guydauderman1645]

We have sever pairs on our ranch in the Texas Hill Country. The most amusing thing is to watch them prance on top of rock retaining walls with a skate it their mouth showing it off.

[@stanwilliams1642]

See them In my aera of Texas sometimes.

[@kingghidorah8106]

one of the coolest birds among ravens and keas imo

[@robertrichard6107]

I've seen Chaparrals several times towards Death Valley, San Bernardino, even west Texas, Nevada, Arizona areas back in 20th Century.

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

I've seen roadrunners in East Texas.

[@southpaw7426]

There’s a pretty large one living across the road from my Texas hill country home. They’re damn funny to watch running around, doing roadrunner business.

[@butchbinion1560]

Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼

[@jerrycallender-qm7zr]

I'm in Tucson with water basins around my yard and frequently have Roadrunner(s) stopping by for a drink. Also have a Cooper's Hawk, many Desert Quail and scads of other bird species that are regular visitors.

[@gardenvape4021]

Good stuff! Thanks

[@chokkan7]

I've seen a few here in Arkansas; wish we had more.

[@gerryroush8391]

Saw two last week running along railroad tracks in Alamogodo last month😊meep meep

[@timf2279]

I have a nest in my backyard with seven eggs.

[@martinwalker9386]

I saw one as I drove from Zion National Park to Hurricane.

[@susantescione8007]

We saw them all the time in Texas. They don't seem to be intimidated by anything.

[@Hey_zues420]

I do alot of driving in south Texas and see these running across the road everyday, I've never seen one dead from being run over, unlike buzzerds that'll stay in the road if there's roadkill in the road. Very smart bird and can also fly pretty fast for a bit

[@greggillson388]

Another excellent video…. This must not be your first channel!

[@brucepoole8552]

I saw one in Napa California

[@alexkanyesigye]

I never knew that in world there is such kind of bird.

[@happyhome41]

Ratites have only three toes forward. Great video.

[@fwobebe5164]

Road Runner, if he catches you you're through. 🎵

[@markeast1574]

Meep!Meep!

[@mflinch6061]

Meep meep!

[@jdobbs7700]

I'm 71 years old now and Wile E. and the Roadrunner is still my favorite cartoon.

[@topherbec7578]

Smart bird. Having dinner afterwards.

[@jeanneh9742]

I have been running my dogs on the Rio Grande River levee near Las Cruces NM for 25 years. I haven’t seen jack rabbits in several years but I still see roadrunners and lynx. Maybe there’s hope. (FYI from greyhounds to Rhodesian Ridgebacks to Miniature Pinschers and Chihuahuas the dogs never catch anything.)

[@jdobbs7700]

I lived outside of Cheyenne Wyoming 1999-2020 and saw many Jackrabbits. Moved back to Texas where I grew up in the 1950s and '60s and haven't seen a single Jackrabbit. Fyi...

[@BANANA42k]

These guys are everywhere in southern oklahoma.

[@donkboys]

At 8:32 the moderator mentions infanticide and another term I can’t decipher. What is that other term?

[@allthingsbirdie]

Siblicide

[@jdobbs7700]

Excellent! I thought I heard "suicide" and I was contemplating just how that could be accomplished by a Chaparral and had landed on standing motionless in a highway.... thanks for the clarification! Meep-Meep.

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

Maybe if we're really lucky, they can continue expanding eastward all the way to Florida. We have lots of non-native reptiles they would enjoy eating. And, well, coyote is already here, so they could...you know...resume their business antics here, too! 😅😊 Keep cats indoors, they have no place anywhere else!

[@snorkeldorktheconqueror9580]

A pair of roadrunner will clean 10 acres of every rodant. That's a wonderful thing. Especially if they have young. In a couple weeks that pair will eat every rodant, every snake under 10 ft. Every lizard. I've seen them hang out at the bird feeder and try to catch hummingbirds. They are very smart.

[@brianpencall4882]

Mention of Juniper Trees, with a picture of a Bristlecone Pine. Hmmm.......

[@hachommohamed7009]

THANK.S

[@johnfrancis4809]

Can't hear you

[@Paul11B2P]

Beep beep !

[@sjain8111]

interesting: the same venom that would kill the bird if bitten is harmless when ingested. I believe peacocks also hunt snakes (for food or security)?

[@rmcq1999]

The honey badger of the bird world?

[@justayoutuber1906]

These are mini-dinosaurs. Imagine one 8 feet tall

[@markuse3472]

No such thing: birds have always been birds. I can imagine them being eight feet tall in fantasy movies.

[@CountryB4Party]

@@markuse3472There is a lot of evidence that birds are descended from theropod dinosaurs.

[@jimskinnermusicetc.811]

Gained its place among the lower indigenous people? Well, maybe among the cuckoo’s it has. And we have certainly a lot of them among the people.

[@gregwasserman2635]

Fun fact - Coyotes can run twice as fast as a roadrunner!

[@mmarvininc]

When roadrunner babies are separated from there parents they give out a call that sounds just like a whining puppy

[@Kingdoms_and_Kobolds]

Roadrunners are the closest thing to a modern Velociraptor, aside from the hook talon, of any modern bird I've seen in terms of their behavior and mannerisms by comparison to what is depicted in movies. Maybe the filmmakers used these birds as a point of reference for behavior, I'll have to look it up

[@gregwasserman2635]

Um...no. Fun fact - Jurassic Park is not a documentary.

[@starlsdd6278]

I have. A road runner that knocks on my picture window at ten am every Morning. I don't know if it's a she but I call her a she. I've been live trapping my eyes, so that's what she wants.I'm sure. I knocked back on a table and she'll knock back communicating with me. I've just seen the one or there might be two. She's been around about a year and a half. She only started knocking on the Window this summer.

[@brajeshsingh2391]

Well the North America may not be very popular for animal life diversity. the only 2 animals known are bear and American bison. There are still these not so popular animals like these which as it seems only native to North America.

[@suwisalperera9796]

Our neighborhood road runner pair keeps us safe from rattlesnakes.

[@MgtowFreightTrain]

They go after baby bunny rabbits too...

[@madbear-e6k]

not a single video or anything where they are actually catching something. Time I will never get back.

[@thedriver4038]

Meep Meep

[@paulgomez6498]

Goshdiyè ( Road Runner )

[@troygaspard6732]

Many birds are snake killers, but not like Road Runners.

[@aaax9410]

roadrunner thousand miles an hour radio on beep beep

[@Salazarsbizzar]

I grew up in New Mexico and I have only seen one. Pretty rare

[@coyotescactus1448]

They are all over the place. Not rare at all.

[@roygramlich1862]

My mom lives in Albuquerque and one surprisin😮 fact, they have a pension for rotten meat, they love it! it almost seems the more rotten the better!

[@jeanneh9742]

Rotten means partially digested

[@RoccosVideos]

Beep beep

[@onebridge7231]

Dinosaur! 🧐

[@trankt54155]

Beep, beep......

[@eewilson9835]

Hummingbirds for snacks? How rude.

[@AmyVanhoozer]

They will eat hummingbirds...😢

[@jamesburke6078]

According to paleontologists rex was a roadrunner! So much for college educated people.... dumbest thing I ever heard!

[@sewingintrifocals-alisonde7778]

Maybe T Rex was a VERY BIG roadrunner? 😁

[@gregwasserman2635]

So being uneducated is a good thing. Got it! Fill us all in on more of you paleontological insights.

[@stankell3629]

kalla-for-nee-an-sus

[@aBerlin1945]

Meep meep!

[@HermannCortez]

Meep meep!