Red-legged seriema
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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 paraphyletic circumscription but recently placed in a distinct order: Cariamiformes (along with three extinct families).
Red-legged seriema | |
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Near Goiânia in central Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Cariamiformes |
Family: | Cariamidae |
Genus: | Cariama Brisson, 1760 |
Species: | C. cristata |
Binomial name | |
Cariama cristata (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
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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).[2]
Like the black-legged seriema, farmers often use them as guard animals to protect poultry from predators and sometimes human intruders.[3]