Cuckoo greater roadrunner is the state bird of the US state of New Mexico and is a common symbol of the American Southwest in general. "Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner" was a long running series of cartoons by Warner Brothers Studios that has had enduring popularity from the time the characters were created in 1949 through the present and helps define the image of the bird in popular culture. Cuckoo The cuckoos are a family of birds, Cuculidae, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes. The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals
Philippine drongo-cuckoo laying its eggs in the nests of other birds but its host species are unknown. Philippine drongo-cuckoo The Philippine drongo-cuckoo ("Surniculus velutinus") is a bird of the cuckoo family found only in the Philippines. It belongs to the genus "Surniculus" along with the Asian drongo-cuckoo ("S. lugubris"). The two were previously classified as a single species but are now often separated based on differences in calls and juvenile plumage. It is long. The black bill is slender and curved and the tail is fairly long and slightly forked. The plumage is mostly glossy blue-black apart from a white bar on