The roadrunner is about sixty centimeters in length. Half of this is its tail.its short wings seem out of proportion to its long legs. Although the roadrunner is a bird,it runs more thanits flies. As it marches across the desert,its huge tail fethers swing from side to side. Sometimes a roadrunner can be streaking across the road as thougth it were a child wind-up car. The roadrunner is truly one of the strangest-looking birds