My thanks to Mark, Bernie and Chuck for advice on Roadrunners.
As you no doubt guessed, it was fondness for the cartoon character that made
me curious to see the real bird, and to wonder if it did go 'meep-meep' ...
or 'beep-beep' as I would have said before you good folk put me right.
Cheers
Syd
> From: Charles Bragg <>
> Reply-To:
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:13:52 -0700
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Big Bend N. P.
>
> At 04:13 PM 5/27/2005 +1000, Syd Curtis wrote:
>
>> Question for Naturerecordists: Does a Roadrunner have a voice? Has it been
>> recorded?
>
> Other than 'meep meep' (and *never* say 'beep-beep' - the man who did the
> voice was quite specific about that), yes, real Greater Roadrunners call. It
> sounds very dove-like and low pitched. You might hear it and dismiss it as
> such, and they don't do it often. I've only heard it during mating season.
> I heard it most recently at Big Bend (!), in March 2002. There was one up in a
> cactus 'tree' (species unknown) just singing its heart out, and I didn't have
> my recording setup with me :(
> I have two commercial recordings - Stokes' North American Birds, and Hardy,
> Reynard and Coffey's New World Trogons and Cuckoos.
>
> -- Chuck
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