ROAD RUNNER, ROAD RUNNERS, ROAD-RUNNERS and
ROADRUNNERS
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![Road Runners - Worland](../Plaques/zzRoadRunners_Worland.jpg)
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."
![Chaparrals - Sioux City, IA](../Plaques/zzChaparrals_SooCity.jpg)
Some additional plaques on this site with roadrunner graphics
have spelled Chaparral different ways. The club from OK spelled it Chaparels
(missing one R and an E instead of an A) and the club from NM spelled it
Chapparals (with an extra P and a missing one R).
![Chaparrals - Pleasant Hill](../Plaques/zzChaparrals_PleasantHill.jpg)
These clubs chose to leave the bird off their plaques.
![Chaparrals - Orange County](../Plaques/zzChaparrals_OrangeCounty.jpg)
Although these plaques don't have a Road Runner on them,
Chaparrals appears to be misspelled.
![Chaparels - Vallejo](../Plaques/zzChaparels_Vallejo.jpg)