The Roadrunner

I used to see quite a few roadrunners in the San Joaquin Valley when I was a kid, then with the growth in the Valley, they got fewer and fewer. I'm not getting all environmentalist on you, it's a simple fact that roadrunners don't do well in Walmart and Home Depot parking lots. 

Anyway, even though I'd seen them all over when I was a youngster, I never knew much about them other than the whole Roadrunner/Wile E Coyote thing. I damned sure didn't know how voracious and vicious the little bastards are.

We'll start you off with a roadrunner killing a rattlesnake, then we'll move on to it beating lizards, snakes and songbirds to death against rocks before eating them.

Roadrunner vs. Rattlesnake - On the hunt with a bird born to run  (8:04 minutes)

12 Fearless Roadrunners Brutally Attacking Their Enemies  (11:45 minutes)