He coined the binomial name Palamedea cristata. The red-legged seriema was described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae. Like the black-legged seriema, farmers often use them as guard animals to protect poultry from predators and sometimes human intruders. 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). The red-legged seriema / s ɛ r i ˈ iː m ə/ ( Cariama cristata), also known as the crested cariama / k æ r i ˈ ɑː m ə/ and crested seriema, is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family ( Cariamidae), included in the Gruiformes in the old paraphyletic circumscription but recently placed in a distinct order: Cariamiformes (along with three extinct families). Microdactylus marcgravii É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809.Microdactylus É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809.
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