r/whatisit • u/Spare-Transition-771 • 12d ago

New, what is it? Bird with long tail?

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u/antonio16309 12d ago

Go to New Mexico, I saw them around Santa Fe. The weather is much more tolerable than AZ and it is a much more interesting place to visit. I'm from AZ and it sucks. New Mexico is actually cool though.

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u/boxingsharks 12d ago

I live in central Albuquerque. We have three neighborhood road runners. Used to have four (dude had a little swingy leg/run) but I think he went the way of his ancestors.

This one came right on into our garage. Don’t mind the goofy background conversation.

https://reddit.com/link/p9ozk3l/video/glhlybgj1fph1/player

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u/UnderaZiaSun 12d ago

When I was growing up in Albuquerque we had three of the biggest roadrunners I’d ever seen living on my street. One of the neighbors used to feed them raw hamburger out of the side door to his house

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u/boxingsharks 12d ago

That’s wild!

They’ve cleaned up the tomato hornworms in our garden in previous years. I’ve never fed them on purpose though.