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Cuculiformes is the bird order of cuckoos and roadrunners, comprising a single family, Cuculidae, with about 150 species in 33 genera, including the common cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. Together with the turacos and the bustards, Cuculiformes forms the larger grouping Otidimorphae.

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