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
Slender-billed cuckoo-dove was split into the following species: Slender-billed cuckoo-dove The slender-billed cuckoo-dove (formerly "Macropygia amboinensis") was until recently the name of a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Its range covered Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and northern Australia. The binomial "M. amboinensis" now refers to the Amboyna cuckoo-dove. The taxonomy of the slender-billed cuckoo-dove was complex, but most authorities now split it into four species based on analyses of vocalizations. This will be further refined by future genetic analyses. In 2003 the ruddy cuckoo-dove ("Macropygia emiliana)" of Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia was split from the slender-billed cuckoo-dove (Dickinson,