A Seriema is a long legged, predatory terrestrial bird. Two species are known, red-legged and black-legged. They live in the grasslands Southern South America. According to creagrus.home.montereybay.com, the word “seriema’ comes from a local Indian word “cariama” which means “the one who wears a short crest.” These birds will actually eat venomous coral snakes!

To incapacitate the snake, they pick it up in their beaks and slam it to the ground! They prefer to run, not fly and can run up to 25km/h! In this video, we see a seriema find what he thinks are eggs – but they are golf balls. His plan is to enjoy the egg once he has cracked it open on the concrete path. He is in for a surprise when this ‘egg’ hits the pavement!

Wonder if his first reaction was – wait – what?! Gotta love his persistence! Share away, people!