Lesser Roadrunner

Lesser Roadrunner

Taxobox
name = Lesser Roadrunner
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Cuculiformes
familia = Cuculidae
genus = "Geococcyx"
species = "G. velox"
binomial = "Geococcyx velox"
binomial_authority = (Wagner, 1836)The Lesser Roadrunner, "Geococcyx velox", is a large, long-legged member of the Cuckoo family, Cuculidae.

The Lesser roadrunner resembles the Greater roadrunner ("Geococcyx californiana") in appearance and habit but is smaller and has a significantly shorter bill. Its breeding range is in southwestern Mexico, and north into the western side of the Sierra Madre Occidental range; also northern Central America, and a disjunct range in the northern Yucatán Peninsula.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.birdsofhonduras.com/photos/chosen/field%20work/Lesser%20Roadrunner-1.jpgPhoto-(bird running-HIGH RES)] ; [http://www.birdsofhonduras.com/field_work.html Article] "Birds of Honduras"
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=lesser+roadrunner&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Lesser Roadrunner photo gallery] VIREO


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