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Mark Catesby, the celebrated eighteenthth-century naturalist, illustrator of North American birds and contemporary of John James Audubon, called the roadrunner the Ground Cuckoo. Of all predatory birds inhabiting arid regions, the roadrunner is one of a very few specifically adapted desert forms. The Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor) of the order Charadriiformes (shorebirds etc.) is a ground dwelling desert inhabitant of Africa and Asia, and an ecological equivalent to roadrunners.
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Cook, W.E. (1997). Roadrunners. In: Avian Desert Predators. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60353-2_4
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