Buffy white with dark brown stripes; dark brown fluffy crown; blue and red skin
behind yellow eye; legs, tail long; brown, wedge-shaped, outer tail feathers
tipped white. Clucks.
In Keresan culture this is the bird associated with NADIR, which is the black
direction. The same association is made with the unspecified "large night bird".
In the depths of winter nadir may be seen as overhead. (See
Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle for comparison.)
Sighted at the
Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group --
7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)
Greater Roadrunner - as of '04
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