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
Oriental cuckoo and has an orange gape with black patches. Within a few days it pushes the eggs or young of the host out of the nest. Older nestlings have blackish feathers with white fringes; the belly is dark brown with white bands. The young birds fledge after around 17–19 days. Oriental cuckoo The Oriental cuckoo or Horsfields cuckoo ("Cuculus optatus") is a bird belonging to the genus "Cuculus" in the cuckoo family Cuculidae. It was formerly classified as a subspecies of the Himalayan cuckoo ("C. saturatus") with the name Oriental cuckoo used for the combined species. Differences in voice and size