| 词条 | Red-legged seriema | |
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| image = Cariama cristata -near Goiania, Goias, Brazil-8.jpg | image_caption = Near Goiânia in central Brazil | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = [1] | parent_authority = Brisson, 1760 | taxon = Cariama cristata | authority = (Linnaeus, 1766) | synonyms = (Genus)
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}} The red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata), or crested cariama, is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family (Cariamidae), included in the Gruiformes in the old paraphyletic circumscription, but increasingly placed in a distinct order Cariamiformes (along with three extinct families). The red-legged seriema inhabits grasslands from Brazil south of the Amazon to Uruguay and northern Argentina. It is estimated that its range covers an area of 5.9 million km2, although it is not found everywhere in this region. The species is absent from the Mata Atlântica and planalto uplands along the coast of Brazil.[1] Like the black-legged seriema, farmers often use them as guard animals to protect poultry from predators and sometimes human intruders.[2] DescriptionIt is 75 to 90 cm (30 to 36 in) long and weighs about 1.5 kg, with a fairly long neck, tail, and legs. The plumage is medium brown above with black markings; pale brown on the head, neck, and breast; and white on the belly. The tail has a black band near the tip and a white tip. The beak and legs are red, and the eyes are yellow. Soft feathers emerge from the base of the bill to form a fan-shaped crest.[4] Many other characteristics are shared with the black-legged seriema (Chunga burmeisteri), the only other living member of its family. Some of these traits are discussed in the Cariamidae article. The song has a quality described as "a cross between 'the serrated bark of a young dog and the clucking of turkeys'".[3] At the loudest part of the song, the bird has its neck bent so its head is touching its back. Both members of a pair as well as young down to the age of two weeks sing; often one member of a family starts a song just as another finishes, or two sing simultaneously. The song can be heard several kilometres away; in Emas National Park, Brazil, in 1981–1982, observers often heard four red-legged seriemas or groups singing at once.[6] The full song consists of three sections:
EcologyThe red-legged seriema prefers grassland habitat to any other. Though it likes to inhabit lush meadows near rivers, it will not readily move into wetlands or crop fields. It is usually seen singly or in pairs, but sometimes in groups up to four, apparently families. It typically walks on the ground and can easily run faster than a human in its habitat. It will flee a car on foot at speeds up to 25 km/h (15 mph) before flying.[6] In one conflict between two birds, they jumped at each other feet-first, keeping their balance by flapping.[6] This species nests on the ground[4] or in a bush or tree up to three m above the ground. In the latter case adults jump into the nest rather than fly.[6] GalleryReferences1. ^1 {{cite journal | authors = BirdLife International | title = Cariama cristata | journal = IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume= 2016 | page = e.T22692205A93341300 | publisher = IUCN | year = 2016 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22692205/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692205A93341300.en | accessdate = 28 May 2017}} [4][5]2. ^https://www.blairdrummond.com/animals/red-legged-seriema 3. ^H. Burmeister, quoted and translated by Redford & Peters (1986) 4. ^1 2 Holyoak, David T. & Heinsohn, Robert (2003): Seriemas. In: Perrins, Christopher (ed.): Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds: 222. Firefly Books. {{ISBN|1-55297-777-3}} 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite journal|author1=Redford, Kent H. |author2=Peters, Gustav |lastauthoramp=yes |year=1986|title=Notes on the biology and song of the Red-legged Seriema (Cariama cristata)|journal=Journal of Field Ornithology|volume=57|issue=4|pages=261–269|url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/jfo/v057n04/p0261-p0269.pdf}} }} External links{{Commons|Cariama cristata}}{{Wikispecies|Cariama cristata}}{{refbegin}}
10 : Cariamidae|Seriemas|Birds of Brazil|Birds of Bolivia|Birds of the Cerrado|Birds of the Caatinga|Birds of Paraguay|Birds of Uruguay|Birds of Argentina|Birds described in 1766 |
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