Known from the discs' own bird lists
Red-legged Seriema
cariama cristata
Cariamidae
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The detailed account of this bird below comes from Disc 1 · 2011. The other discs list the bird but carry no account of it, and none is invented here.
From the original Disc 1 · 2011 revision
Detailed account — Disc 1 · 2011
This detailed account first appears in the 2011 Disc 1 revision; the earlier releases have no account for this bird.
Description Disc 1 · 2011
75-90 cm. Unmistakable, due to the prominent shaggy crest on the forehead, red bill and salmon-colored legs. Above light ashy brown, darkest on the crown, back, and middle rectrices, feathers finely vermiculated buff; inner webs of flight feathers boldly barred white; other tail feathers broadly tipped white and with a black subtermial bar; below cinereous tinged buff, neck and breast with fine white streaks broadening on the sides and upper abdomen; belly and crissum white; iris yellow; bill bright red; tarsi reddish.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 1 · 2011
The account, continued
Voice Disc 1 · 2011
In the morning the song starts with 2-6 ascending "cleep..cleep..cleep.." and up to 13 descending "claup..claup..claup". Sometimes omits the descending "claup" series.
Behavior Disc 1 · 2011
Feeds alone or in pairs or small family parties by walking slowly and searching for prey (arthropods, lizzards, small rodents, fruits) on the ground or low in vegetation.
Breeding Disc 1 · 2011
Breeder.
Habitat and status Disc 1 · 2011
Common in open dry woodland, scrub, savannah, ranchland, hilly grassland, caatinga, cerrado, cerradao.
Distribution Disc 1 · 2011
Throughout, but lacking in the litoral. In Estado São Paulo occurs from 500 - 2000 meters (the high mountain grass land of the Serra Mantiqueira);
Taxonomy notes Disc 1 · 2011
An unique large, lanky, quite fearless, long legged bird running on the ground with large steps.
The Disc 2 · 2001 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
The Disc 3 · 2006 contains no detailed account for this bird (its 2011 account is shown above). None is invented here.
Vocalizations
Each disc's own recording entries are shown under that disc's label. A player appears only where the recording's file survives on a preserved disc.
Disc 2 · 2001
Call. Serra das Rosas near Franca. 11/7/98. Rain in the morning, then sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest. With Herpsilochmus atricapillus, Vireo olivaceus. Disc 2 · 2001
Audio file found on Disc 1 (2011). The asserting release's own preserved disc did not carry it; the historical assertion above is unchanged.
Disc 1 · 2011
Call. Serra das Rosas near Franca. 11/7/98. Rain in the morning, then sunny, 27°C. Secondary forest. With Herpsilochmus atricapillus, Vireo olivaceus. Disc 1 · 2011
Near Lenciois, Bahia. Open scrub. October 28, 2005. Disc 1 · 2011
Calls. Reserva do Rio Doce, MG, Timoteo. November 1, 2001 Disc 1 · 2011
More images
photo by Fritz Mueller. Disc 1 · 2011 Photo by Fritz Mueller. Disc 1 · 2011
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 2 · 2001
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 1 · 2011
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The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
Historical checklist participation
Disc 2 · 2001
Selected on local checklists: CASB.CKD; FZSB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SERB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBRAZIL.CKD; SEBZ_D1.CKD
Disc 3 · 2006
Selected on local checklists: CASB.CKD; FZSB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SERB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd
Disc 1 · 2011
Selected on local checklists: CASB.CKD; FZSB.CKD; ITSB.CKD; RERB.CKD; SDTC.CKD; SERB.CKD; SRRB.CKD
Listed on product/edition lists: SEBZ_D1.CKD; Sebrazil.ckd