It may be much different now, but as I grew up you automatically associated the Coyote with the Roadrunner. I suppose those cartoons are mostly long forgotten now.
Most often I see them running along a back country road, trail, or dry wash, so I would venture to say they are well named. I suppose it is far easier to spot their favorite meals of lizards and snakes in an open area than in the brush and rocks of the desert.
The photograph I used to create my latest watercolor was taken in Donelly Wash near the Gila River, a very beautiful place to visit not too far from the old ghost town of Cochran.
The Roadrunner ( Geococcyx californianus ) in watercolor.
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