The seriema-hoatzin clade was closely allied with a cuckoo-turaco clade. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin] Reference
The seriema is sort of the South American equivalent of Africa's Secretary Bird. From Wordnik.com. [Big Bird] Reference
Red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) of the Cerrado grasslands of central Brazil. From Wordnik.com. [Cerrado] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Cerrado] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
And how'd that African turaco get between the American vulture and the seriema?. From Wordnik.com. [Terror birds] Reference
Miller and one of the dogs caught a seriema, a big, long-legged, bustardlike bird, in rather a curious way. From Wordnik.com. [VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land] Reference
Tambussi worked with zookeepers at the La Plata Zoo to get a seriema and an eagle to chomp down on their bite meter. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
To examine bite force in birds in general, Degrange and Tambussi worked with zookeepers at the La Plata Zoo to get a seriema and an eagle to chomp down on their bite meter. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
They also developed models of two living species for comparison - an eagle, as well as the terror bird's closest living relative, a South American bird known as the seriema. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
Not biting, evidently: the scientists used a bite meter to compare the chomping power of an eagle and of a seriema, a not-very-terrifying modern relative of the extinct bird. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
To see how strong the terror bird's bite might have been, the researchers worked with zookeepers at the La Plata Zoo to get a seriema and an eagle to chomp down on their bite meter. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
From the CT scans, Stephen Wroe, director of the Computational Biomechanics Research Group at the University of New South Wales, Australia, assembled sophisticated 3-D models of the terror bird and two living species for comparison (an eagle, and the terror bird's closest living relative, the seriema). From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
It’s also possible that the birds used this kicking power to stun or kill prey, and here you will of course be thinking of the Secretary bird Sagittarius serpentarius, a cursorial raptor (superficially similar to a seriema) that kills or stuns snakes and other terrestrial prey with repeated kicks. From Wordnik.com. [More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest] Reference
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