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2025 02 02 02 Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) AZ USA🐦

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SpeciesCuculiformesCuculidae
Birds

🐦Greater Roadrunner

Geococcyx californianus (Lesson, 1829)

走鵑（學名：Geococcyx californianus），英文名稱「road runner」字意為在路上賽跑者。亦稱灌叢雞（chaparralcock），是鵑形目杜鵑科的地棲性鳥類。是北美最大的杜鹃鸟。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Photos
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Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/160th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.38 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
9 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Greater Roadrunner

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.38 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.38 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.29 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.18 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
9 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
20 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 4
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Shrubland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.4 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Greater Roadrunner yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCuculiformes
  5. ›familyCuculidae
  6. ›genusGeococcyx
  7. ›speciesGeococcyx californianus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderCuculiformes
  4. genusGeococcyx
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderCuculiformes
  11. genusGeococcyx
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In other languages
Wegekuckuck (de), correcamins del nord (ca), kukačka kohoutí (cs), Jordgøg (da), Geococcyx californianus (es), kalifornianjuoksukäki (fi) … and 22 more languages
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