ROAD RUNNER, ROAD RUNNERS, ROAD-RUNNERS and
ROADRUNNERS
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When this photo of the Chaparrals plaque (below) was sent to me by Bob Dahl,
I wondered what a chaparral was since the graphic looks a lot like some of the
plaques above. A search on the Internet found that "The chaparral bird, or
roadrunner, was adopted as the official state bird of New Mexico on March 16,
1949."
Some additional plaques on this site with roadrunner graphics
have spelled Chaparral different ways. The club from Altus, OK spelled it
Chaparels (missing one R and an E instead of an A) and the club from
Southeastern NM spelled it Chapparals (with an extra P and a missing one R).
These clubs chose to leave the bird off their plaques.
Although these plaques don't have a "Road Runner" on
them, Chaparrals appears to be misspelled.
