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ROAD RUNNER

NEW MEXICO STATE BIRD

The State Bird is the road runner, called paisano (meaning fellow countryman or compatriot) by the Spanish. He is a strange looking bird, long toiled, long bodied, long necked, with glaring, startled looking eyes in a fiercely crested head, with legs set seemingly much too far back on his body. He is a swift runner, always ready for a race. He can stop almost instantly using his long fan-like tail as a brake. He was officially adopted as the state bird of New Mexico in March 1949.

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Posted 1973

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