The Roadrunners

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