The Lesser Roadrunner, Geococcyx velox, is a large, long-legged member of the Cuckoo family, Cuculidae.
The Lesser roadrunner resembles the Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californiana) in appearance and habit but is smaller and has a significantly shorter bill. Its breeding range is in southwestern Mexico.
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Pictures of the lesser roadrunner at badboybirding.com (http://www.badboybirding.com/LERO_02142004.htm)
Roadrunners are masters of opportunity, capturing a variety of prey, including lizards, scorpions, snakes, rodents, small birds, eggs, millipedes, spiders, and insects.
Geographically, though, the roadrunner' s range is impressive, and it has been expanding in recent years, probably due in part to an increase in overgrazed, cleared areas that provide plenty of shrubby cover.
The greater roadrunner is found from California east to western Louisiana and Arkansas, north to the lowlands of Colorado and Nevada, and south to southern Mexico, where its closest relative, the lesserroadrunner (Geococcyx velox), takes over and occurs south to Nicaragua.
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