The roadrunner is a large, slender, black-brown and white streaked ground bird that is terrestrial; although capable of flight. Roadrunners can run at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h)[1] and generally prefer sprinting to flying. Roadrunners will fly to escape predators.
Also known as the prairie wolf, you are more likely to hear a coyote than seeone. Their high pitched calls are most often heard at dusk or night, but may be heard in the day. Although these calls are made throughout the year, they are most common during the spring mating season and in the fall when the pups leave their families to establish new territories.
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Sing a song with your friends about outlaws, watch a movie or learn some jokes.
State Symbols
Learn about all the New Mexico state symbols. Can you believe we not only have a state aircraft but we also have a state cookie and state reptile? Try memorizing them all and then giving your parents a quiz on them. I bet they will be shocked and surpised with how much you know.
Animal Tracks
With all the wild animals in New Mexico it is always fun to discover animal tracks and figure out what animal goes with the tracks. Some tracks look very similiar like a coyote and dog or bob cat and mountain lion. On the other hand, a badge footprints look very funny. Which footprints are the most interesting to you?
Cowboys & Indians
New Mexico will always be known for being the true Wild West with cowboys and indians and other historical characters. Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Kit Carson, Geronimo and Cochise all had their adventures written about in the old dime novels of the 1800's and their names bring up fantasies about the Old Southwest.
Ghosts & Aliens
Ghosts and Aliens have shown up all over New Mexico. There are many hotels, restaurants and ghost towns that have their own resident ghosts. As for aliens, the most world reknown alien event was the Roswell UFO Incident where in the late 1940's a widely debated UFO crash occurred.
