{"id":16144,"date":"2012-07-10T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=16144"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:27:04","slug":"from-fiction-to-reality-in-a-split-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/from-fiction-to-reality-in-a-split-second\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fiction to Reality … in a Split Second!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many of us grew up with Wiley Coyote doing everything under the sun to catch the quick Roadrunner. As a child, I used to watch the coyote develop elaborate plans to catch the roadrunner for a quick meal, only to have things backfire and leaving the coyote in a “lost again” situation.<\/p>\n

Well, in May I traveled to south Texas (the Rio Grande Valley) to photograph an assortment of birds that are not common to my home state of Missouri. Among the many birds I encountered, the Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus<\/em>) was one of my favorite. Although this bird did not perform quite the same as the fictional cartoon character, it sure was a beauty to watch and photograph. And yes, it did run about the area around the water hole, foraging for insects.<\/p>\n

Here are a few images I captured during this 3-day trip:<\/p>\n

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So many of us grew up with Wiley Coyote doing everything under the sun to catch the quick Roadrunner. As a child, I used to watch the coyote develop elaborate plans to catch the roadrunner for a quick meal, only to have things backfire and leaving the coyote in a “lost again” situation. Well, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2192375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/A7D-9109-GrtrRoadRunner-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[522,520,521,7774],"class_list":["post-16144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-behavior","tag-rio-grande-valley","tag-roadrunner","tag-texas","ngg_tag-animals","ngg_tag-bird","ngg_tag-animal","ngg_tag-animalia","ngg_tag-animals-in-the-wild","ngg_tag-aves","ngg_tag-avian-2","ngg_tag-bird-watching","ngg_tag-birds-2","ngg_tag-birdwatching","ngg_tag-colombia","ngg_tag-glenn-bartley","ngg_tag-latin-america-2","ngg_tag-photography-2","ngg_tag-south-america-2","ngg_tag-white-cheeked-pintail-anas-bahamensis","ngg_tag-wildlife-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}