红腿叫鹤（学名：**'）是叫鹤科最具掠夺性的陆地鸟类。红腿叫鹤栖息在草原上，从亚马逊雨林南部巴西到乌拉圭，以及阿根廷北部。整个区域面积约为590万平方公里，当然该品种并不是分布在该区域所有地方，从大西洋沿岸森林到巴西沿海没有它的踪迹。
描述
红腿叫鹤长度为75到90厘米，重量约为1.5公斤。脖子、尾巴和腿较长。羽毛为褐色，上面有黑色斑纹，头部、颈部、胸部为浅褐色，肚皮为白色。尾部末梢为白色，有黑色带。嘴和腿为红色，眼睛为黄色。从喙的边上有柔软的羽毛，形成一个扇形的冠。
註釋
參考文獻
- (2006): Composição da avifauna em oito áreas úmidas da Bacia Hidrográfica do Lago Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul [Bird composition and conservation in eight wetlands of the hidrographic basin of Guaíba lake, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil]. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 14(2): 101-115 [Portuguese with English abstract]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081219192057/http://www.ararajuba.org.br/sbo/ararajuba/artigos/Volume142/ara142art2.pdf PDf fulltext]
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- (2003): Seriemas. In: : Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds: 222. Firefly Books. ISBN 1-55297-777-3
- (1986): Notes on the biology and song of the Red-legged Seriema (Cariama cristata). Journal of Field Ornithology 57(4): 261-269. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110614065424/http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/JFO/v057n04/DJVU/p0261-p0269.djvu DjVu fulltext] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110614065424/http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/JFO/v057n04/p0261-p0269.pdf PDF fulltext]
外部連結
*[http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=1330 Red-legged Seriema videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
*[http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/5000100.htm Stamps] (for Uruguay) with RangeMap
*[http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=red-legged+seriema&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Red-legged Seriema photo gallery]
*[http://www.geometer.org/Brazil2006/images/Seriema.jpg Photo-High Res] ; [http://www.geometer.org/Brazil2006/best.html Article] geometer–"Brazil Birds"
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