The Roadrunners

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Across
  1. 5. The baby uses it's _____ to poke and peck at the egg.
  2. 7. They keep the babies safe and warm in their nest near ____.
  3. 10. Her name tells you that she likes to ____.
  4. 11. Where do roadrunners live?
  5. 12. Watching something to keep it safe.
  6. 13. One by one, the baby roadrunners hatch out of the eggs.
  7. 15. Mother and Father Roadrunner take turns guarding the nest for 14 days.
  8. 16. The babies are hungry.
Down
  1. 1. To make a hole in something by hitting it with a beak.
  2. 2. Roadrunners are ______ birds.
  3. 3. She tucks the nest in some _______ plants.
  4. 4. The bird is Mother ___________.
  5. 6. But now, Mother and Father Roadrunner ____ the babies.
  6. 8. A bird is collecting _______ behind an old house on Cactus Road.
  7. 9. Mother Roadrunner lays ______ eggs in the nest over the next four days.
  8. 14. What is a good snack for a roadrunner?
  9. 17. She uses the sticks to build a _______.