Video
Roadrunner - ASL / Audio Description
Transcript
Famous for their streamlined appearance and bursts of speed, greater roadrunners live in the Sonoran Desert year round. Unlike many other birds, greater roadrunners do not migrate. They rely on a warm climate and habitats with open spaces between large bushes, trees and cacti. These birds can fly, which is always surprising when seen, but are very well adapted to stalking in the underbrush for their next meal. Greater roadrunners seek their prey using the cover of plants and dash after their prey like lizards, small snakes, rodents, baby quail and large insects. Greater roadrunners use their wings to help them leap up to their nest often in a cactus or tree. Males will flap to the top of a saguaro cactus or mesquite tree to display for a mate by clacking its bill and making low cooing sounds. The antics of greater roadrunners were certainly well known by the Tohono O'odham who shared the same Sonoran Desert habitat, and probably as well with colonists whose long journey put them in the path of this fascinating bird. Greater roadrunners are generally viewed positively by people since roadrunners hunt and consume creatures like insects and snakes which may be unfairly viewed as pests.
Description
ASL / Audio Description for Footprints exhibit at the Anza Trail Cultural History Park in Tucson, AZ (ROADRUNNER)
Duration
1 minute, 26 seconds
Credit
AZFLIS
Date Created
01/05/2023
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