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There’s More to Birding than Birds

10,000 Birds

We’ve got coyotes in Chicago and its suburbs, but I’ve never bumped into one in the field. The tours out to the Stillwater Refuge and Carson Lake, though, offered good looks at two coyotes. Birding Lizards Mammals Reptiles Trips animals' Through the windows of our van, but good looks nevertheless.). How about you?

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What is the State Bird of New Mexico?

10,000 Birds

These ground birds have been clocked going 20 mph, though their coyote predators can go more than twice that. Rattlesnakes are fair game, as are other reptiles, scorpions, frogs, birds, and insects. Of course, only thirty minutes later I saw my second roadrunner, this time standing on a lawn adjacent to a busy street!