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
Cuckoo-finch moved to a genus of its own, "Anomalospiza". The name of the genus means "anomalous finch" with "spiza" being a Greek word for finch. The specific name "imberbis" comes from Latin and means "beardless". Its closest relatives are thought to be the indigobirds and whydahs of the genus "Vidua". These birds are now usually considered to form a family, Viduidae. Previously they were treated as a subfamily, Viduinae, within either the estrildid finch family, Estrildidae, or the weaver family, Ploceidae. The cuckoo-finch is a small finch-like bird, about 11–13 cm long. It has a short tail, large legs and feet,