In June I was in North Dakota and remember a blog post from Bill of the Birds in which he talked about (and provided a photos of) what is billed as the World's Largest Sandhill Crane.

Well, not to be outdone, how could I pass up sharing with you what has to be the world's largest Roadrunner or, as l like to call it, the Greatest Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus maximus).

This giant cuckoo - for those of you who are non-birders, roadrunners are members of the Cuckoo family - is all "recycled materials" (or "trash") held together with wire. It probably stands about 15 feet tall and can be viewed up close (if you really have to) in a rest area on the eastbound side of Interstate 10 a few miles west of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

In the detail image above, the left side is from the body and includes plastic oil cans, a fishing rod, the saddle from a Wonder Horse rocking horse, and just visible toward the bottom right, a computer keyboard. The right side is of the upper leg and it, like most of the underside of the body, is made up of old tennis shoes and assorted bits of other junk. The feet were made of pipes and rebar.

Now where is that giant Coyote . . .