The Roadrunners

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