Professor Christopher Witt is the curator of birds at the University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology.
“I think New Mexico is perfect for roadrunners. The abundance of roadrunners demonstrates that,” Witt said.
The greater roadrunner is a member of the cuckoo family, and is a truly unique species. Not only does it resemble a tiny distant relative of a velociraptor, but it rarely, if ever, drinks water. The dry heat of our state and the abundance of desert lizards makes for a pretty ideal home…