We saw this roadrunner as we were leaving Mom’s retirement ranch. It was scampering through a neighbor’s yard with something in its mouth (a lizard, I think). Click on the image to enlarge.
Wikipedia says this about the roadrunner’s diet and foraging habits:
Food and foraging habits
Roadrunners are omnivores and are opportunistic. Their diet normally consists of insects (such as grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, and beetles), small reptiles (such as lizards and snakes, including rattlesnakes), rodents and small mammals, tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, snails, small birds, eggs, nestlings, and fruits and seeds like prickly pear cactus and sumac. Because of its quickness, the roadrunner is one of the few animals that preys upon rattlesnakes.
