Black-legged Seriema

• Along with the red-legged seriema it is the only living relative of the phorusrhacids, the terror birds: flightless predators up to three metres tall that were the great carnivores of South America for tens of millions of years.
• It is more arboreal than its relative: it roosts in trees and often hunts from a low branch, dropping onto lizards and rodents passing beneath.
• Its song is a rising wail that pairs perform as a duet at dawn, and is one of the characteristic sounds of the dry Chaco.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Dry Chaco woodland, thorn scrub and dense brush of central South America

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

29 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunga_burmeisteri

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.