seriema

IPA: sˈɪrimɑ

Either of two species of bird in the family Cariamidae, endemic to South America.

Examples of "seriema" in Sentences

The seriema-hoatzin clade was closely allied with a cuckoo-turaco clade.
The seriema is sort of the South American equivalent of Africa's Secretary Bird.
Red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) of the Cerrado grasslands of central Brazil.
Some of the most distinctive birds in the hotspot include two very large species, the rhea (Rhea americana) and the red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata), neither of which are endemic.
Unless there has been some revolution in higher-level avian cladistics I've been completely ignorant of, the seriema is considered a fairly close relative of these magnificent predators.
Tonni & Tambussi (1988) described the foot morphology of the Miocene psilopterine Psilopterus and showed that its foot claws were nearly identical to those of the living seriema Cariama cristata.
The two living seriema species are South American, but members of similar, closely related groups (the bathornithids and idiornithids) inhabited North America from the Eocene to the Miocene and Europe from the Eocene to the Oligocene.