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==Description==
 
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Greater Rhea is huge, and hefty [[ratite]] that's {{convert|1.70|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall, with pale irides, base of neck and sides are blackish,{{SAnonpasserines}} grey to brown and white in colour, which helps it to camouflage it.{{Definitive}} Huge wings with long floppy feathers covering body.<ref name="SANP"/>
It is grey to brown and white in colour, which helps it to camouflage it.{{Definitive}} Like other ratites (large flightless birds), there is little difference between the sexes, except the male has a dark collar in the breeding season.<ref name="Bird"/> The juvenile has more grey in its plumage and is marked with dark stripes that disappear about six months after hatching.<ref name="Bird"/>
 
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Like other ratites (large flightless birds), there is little difference between the sexes, except the male has a dark collar in the breeding season.<ref name="Bird"/> The juvenile has more grey in its plumage and is marked with dark stripes that disappear about six months after hatching.<ref name="Bird"/>
   
 
===Similar species===
 
===Similar species===

Revision as of 00:27, 13 March 2018

Greater Rhea
Greater Rhea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Clade: Notopalaeognathae
Superorder: Rheimorphae
Order: Rheiformes
Family: Rheidae
Genus: Rhea
Species: Rhea americana
(Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
Binomial name
Rhea americana
Subspecies

R. americana americana (Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
R. a. intermidia (Rotschild & Chubb, 1914)[2]
R. a. nobilis (Brodkorb, 1939)[2]
R. a. araneipes (Brodkorb, 1938)[2]
R. a. albescens (Arribálzaga & Holmberg, 1878)[2]

Rhea americana Distribuzione
Distribution of subspecies

The Greater Rhea, Rhea americana, is a flightless bird found in eastern South America. Other names for the Greater Rhea include the Grey, Common, American Rhea, ñandú (Guaraní) or ema (Portuguese). One of two species in the genus Rhea, in the family Rheidae, the Greater Rhea is endemic to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Other names

"Ostrich of South America".[3]

Description

Greater Rhea is huge, and hefty ratite that's 1.70 m (5.6 ft) tall, with pale irides, base of neck and sides are blackish,[4] grey to brown and white in colour, which helps it to camouflage it.[3] Huge wings with long floppy feathers covering body.[4]

Like other ratites (large flightless birds), there is little difference between the sexes, except the male has a dark collar in the breeding season.[3] The juvenile has more grey in its plumage and is marked with dark stripes that disappear about six months after hatching.[3]

Similar species

The Lesser Rhea is shorter.[3]


Behaviour

Diet

Calls

Reproduction

Distribution/habitat

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN2011.1
  2. ^ a b c d e f Blake, Emmet Reid (1977). Manual of Neotropical Birds: Spheniscidae (penguins) to Laridae (gulls and allies). University of Chicago Press. pp. 8–9. ISBN 0-226-05641-4. 
  3. ^ a b c d e Frances, Peter; et al. (2007). Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide. Dorling Kindersley Inc. ISBN 1564582957. 
  4. ^ a b Erize, Francisco; Mata, Jorge R. Rodriguez; Rumboli, Maurice (2006). A Field Guide to the Birds of South America Non-Passerines. Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 9780007150847. 


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