- CHARACTERISTICS
- Its height can reach up to 150 cm, with well-developed legs adapted for speed, which end in three toes. It has a large neck and the wings are useless for flight.
The head, small and ash-coloured, has a strong bill, depressed and wide at the base. Black in the neck and chest and grey in the rest of the body.
- DIET
- Omnivorous: it eats seeds, grain, fruit, batrachians and reptiles, small mammals and bird squabs.
- REPRODUCTION
- Courtship involves the males and between 2 and 12 females.
The male builds a nest, into which the females will deposit their eggs, and the male is charged with incubating them and, although it tends to be a very pacific bird, it becomes particular and suddenly dangerous when it is brooding.
- CURIOSITIES
- It is one of the preferred hunting pieces, for food purposes. Also, its large eggs are collected for the same purpose.
Likewise, it is bred for the use of its feathers and skin, for example: the skin from the nape of the neck tends to be used to make handmade cases, wallets,
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- NAME
- Greater Rhea
- HABITAT
- South America
- SCIENTIFIC NAME
- Rhea americana
- SPICE
- Poultry
- DIET
- Omnivorous
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