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What is a roadrunner?

What is a roadrunner? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Either of two species of bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family, native to North and Central America. They are fast runners.
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A man wearing a roadrunner bolo tie strokes his chin as he stands before Nora's painting.
This makes me think of a curious bird I noticed in my drives at San Diego, the roadrunner, classed with the cuckoo.
Rather than developing zygodactyly to aid running, Harris suggests that both the roadrunner and its predecessor began as tree dwellers and moved to the ground later.
Others say the word is derived from camis, signifying a roadrunner.
In one intriguing trackway, the footfalls of a fringe-toed lizard were paralleled by the prints of a roadrunner, a lizard-eating bird.
Common birds include the owl, roadrunner, cactus wren, and various species of hawk.

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