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title: "Seriema crestato"
description: "Cariama cristata — Uccelli. 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)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/red-legged-seriema
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Seriema crestato

> Cariama cristata — Uccelli. 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).

- Scientific name: *Cariama cristata*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi), `farm` (Fattoria), `savanna` (Savana)
- iNaturalist observations: 4824
- Wikidata: [Q903662](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q903662)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14)

## Names

- en: Red-legged Seriema
- de: Rotfußseriema
- es: Chuña patas rojas
- fr: Cariama huppé
- it: Seriema crestato
- nl: Kuifseriema
- pl: Kariama czerwononoga

## Countries with the most observations

BR (3898), AR (234), BO (104), UY (69), PY (12)

## Summary

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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-legged_seriema

## Photo

![Seriema crestato](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-legged-seriema/medium.jpg)

Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/173605447

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-legged-seriema?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).