A roadrunner stopped at Trump’s border wall in the Ariz. desert. A photographer snapped an award-winning image. [washingtonpost.com]

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) 9/14/214:00 AM

By Gina Harkins, the Washington Post, September 13, 2021

Alejandro Prieto has spent nearly 16 months camped out near the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, where he has documented the barricade’s effect on bobcats, jaguars, sheep and other animals.

He was driving on the U.S. side of the border wall near Naco, Ariz., about two years ago when a roadrunner darted out of the vegetation. Prieto, a wildlife photographer from Guadalajara, Mexico, grabbed his camera as the speedy bird stopped in the middle of a gravel road.

The roadrunner appeared to gaze at the tall barbed-wire-covered wall that cut through the desert. It was there just long enough for Prieto to snap a few shots.

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