Red-legged seriema: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the red-legged seriema lives – recorded in 5 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Cariama cristata
Group	Cuckoos, turacos & other birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	5 countries
Continents	South America
Mass	1.86 kg (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Cariamiformes
Family	Cariamidae

Where does the red-legged seriema live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the red-legged seriema in 5 countries and territories across South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Brazil, South America.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a red-legged seriema?

Wikidata records the following for the red-legged seriema: mass 1.86 kg (adult weight).

Is the red-legged seriema endangered?

The red-legged seriema’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the red-legged seriema?

The red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) is a bird in the order Cariamiformes and the family Cariamidae, genus Cariama. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the red-legged seriema

The red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata), also known as the crested cariama 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).

Like the black-legged seriema, farmers often use them as guard animals to protect poultry from predators and sometimes human intruders.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Red-legged seriema (revision 1373200166), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q903662 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).