Red-legged Seriema

Cariama cristata

The red-legged seriema, 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. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 2,948 times across 7 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in South America ranged from 26°S in December to 14°S in August, about 1,400 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.