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Cuckoos belong to the order "Cuculidae", which is just the Latin way of saying "cuckoo". The birds get their name from the sound they make.

Cuckoos are found in both the eastern and western hemispheres, where they usually live in forested or brushy areas. There are 127 different species. In North America, the Cuckoo family includes the ani, cuckoo and roadrunner.

Ani is the Spanish name for 3 species of tropical American cuckoos, and they are found only in the Western hemisphere. They are unusual in the cuculidae family because they are the only cuckoos that are social and that live in large flocks. Several pairs of anis build one large nest where they lay anywhere from 10 to 26 eggs, which they raise together. They share all the duties of incubating eggs and feeding the young.

47 species of cuckoo are what is called "brood parasites" - they lay their eggs in nests of other birds who are then stuck with the chore of raising the babies. In North America, only two species of cuckoo are occasionally brood-parasitic. They are the black-billed and the yellow-billed cuckoos.

The roadrunner is a ground cuckoo. It gets its name because in early days, it had a habit of running down the road ahead of horse-drawn vehicles. It is found in the west and southwest United States. Roadrunners mate for life.

By the way... cuckoos don't live in clocks.