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
Little cuckoo Little cuckoo The little cuckoo ("Coccycua minuta") is a species of bird in the cuckoo family (Cuculidae) from South America and Panama. It was formerly placed in the genus "Piaya", but was moved to the reinstated genus "Coccycua" following the discovery that its closest living relatives are a couple species traditionally placed in "Coccyzus" or "Micrococcyx", rather than the other members of "Piaya". This species is about long and weighs . The adult is mainly chestnut brown, with a greyish lower belly, browner tail and white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is yellow, short, and decurved; the iris