# What do Roadrunners eat?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 11, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-roadrunners-eat/289506 "2005-02-11T01:53:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-roadrunners-eat/289506/21 "2005-02-16T00:18:40Z")

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Not surprisingly, **Colibri** is, of course, a hummingbird expert. Is that cool or what?

**mbh** , I had no idea roadrunners would hang out by bird feeders and stalk doves and other birds. I am alternately pleased and repulsed by this. I wish they would attack the house cats that hang out by my feeder.

Roadrunners are like no other birds I’ve ever seen, though I believe there are similar birds (filling the same ecological niche) on other continents. If you’ve never seen one in the wild, you need to head out to the southwest sometime. Coyotes are damn cool, too.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-roadrunners-eat/289506/22 "2005-02-16T00:29:12Z")

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> [@Malodorous](#):
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> Somewhat ironically, they eat Coyotes

Thus substantially proving that everything you see on television is _wrong_. 🙂

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-roadrunners-eat/289506/23 "2005-02-16T01:34:45Z")

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> [@David Simmons](#):
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> And sometimes they have a real bad day. There was a young roadrunner who hung around the 5th fairway on our golf course. We also have coyotes who hang around our golf course. One morning the scattered feathers out in the fairway were all that was left of the roadrunner.

Homer, that wasn’t you, that was a cartoon!

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