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Definition of Seriemas

Seriema
Seriema Ser`i*e"ma, n. [Native name.] (Zo["o]l.) A large South American bird (Dicholophus, or Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.

Meaning of Seriemas from wikipedia

- nests. The breeding biology of the seriemas is poorly known, and much of what is known comes only from red-legged seriemas. Pairs appear to be territorial...
- in Caatinga, Cerrado and Chaco. Seriemas are wary, territorial, and diurnal birds. Generally, the red-legged seriema is sedentary, although there are...
- The black-legged seriema (Chunga burmeisteri) is one of two living species of seriemas in the family Cariamidae. It is found from southeastern Bolivia...
- North America. Part of Cariamiformes, they are related to the still extant seriemas and the extinct Phorusrhacidae. They were likely similar in habits, being...
- existed for over 60 million years. The group includes the family Cariamidae (seriemas) and the extinct families Phorusrhacidae, Bathornithidae, Idiornithidae...
- to modern seriemas and the extinct terror birds. Part of Bathornithidae (though some analysis recover it as closer to the living seriemas instead, or...
- Members of both groups have heads either partly or fully devoid of feathers. Seriemas, large South American birds with long, stilted legs that occupy a similar...
- modern-day relatives are believed to be the 80-centimetre-tall (31 in) seriemas. Titanis walleri, one of the larger species, is known from Texas and Florida...
- The Seriema River is a river of Ceará state in eastern Brazil. List of rivers of Ceará Brazilian Ministry of Transport v t e...
- falcons are part of a clade of birds called Australaves, which also includes seriemas, parrots and p****erines. Within Australaves falcons are more closely related...