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Species
Least ConcernRed-legged Seriema
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Cariama cristata
- taxon name
- Cariama cristata
- Commons gallery
- Cariama cristata
- taxon common name
- seriema-de-patas-vermelhas
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- litter size
- 2.4
- taxon range
- South America
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- short name
- C. cristata
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Encyclopedic overview
The red-legged seriema /sɛriˈiːmə/ (Cariama cristata), also known as the crested cariama /kæriˈɑːmə/ and crested seriema, is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family (Cariamidae), included in the Gruiformes in the old polyphyletic circumscription but recently placed in a distinct order: Cariamiformes (along with three extinct families).
The red-legged seriema is widely distributed in South America, occurring in central and eastern Brazil through eastern Bolivia and Paraguay to Uruguay and central Argentina (south to La Pampa).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Red-legged Seriema” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.