Rheas (Rheidae)
Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) - HBW 1, p. 89
French: Nandou d'Amérique
German: Nandu
Spanish: Ñandú Común
Other common names: Common Rhea
Taxonomy: Struthio americanus Linnaeus, 1758, Sergipe and Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Several races poorly known, classification remains provisional. Five subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- americana (Linnaeus, 1758) - NE to SE Brazil.
- intermedia Rothschild & Chubb, 1914 - SE Brazil, Uruguay.
- nobilis Brodkorb, 1939 - E Paraguay.
- americana (Linnaeus, 1758) - NE to SE Brazil.
- intermedia Rothschild & Chubb, 1914 - SE Brazil, Uruguay.
- nobilis Brodkorb, 1939 - E Paraguay.
- araneipes Brodkorb, 1938 - W Paraguay, E Bolivia, SW Brazil.
- albescens Lynch Arribálzaga & Holmberg, 1878 - NE & E Argentina.
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
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A family group on a crop and crossing a road, one of the adults being alert. Locality Chapadao do Ceu, Goiás State, Brazil (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 6 years ago 28 sec 4.7 -
Three birds walking, then the male displaying. Locality Ceibas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp albescens)
Josep del Hoyo 24 September 2008 4 years ago 47 sec 4.7 -
A male foraging on the ground Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 11 January 2005 5 years ago 27 sec 4.6 -
A juvenile feeding on a crop Locality Chapadao do Ceu, Goiás State, Brazil (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 6 years ago 40 sec 4.4 -
A group of males walking and preening Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 11 January 2005 5 years ago 27 sec 4.2 -
Three birds foraging on a field. Locality Fazenda Javaes, Pium, Tocantins State, Brazil (ssp araneipes)
Josep del Hoyo 5 August 2011 49 weeks ago 25 sec 4.2
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Adulto
Locality San Miguel del Monte (Monte), Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp albescens)
Silvia Vitale 13 June 2009 3 years ago 4.5 -
Bird on a field of Pantanal.
Locality Miranda, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil
Antonio Silveira 1 June 2005 34 weeks ago 4 -
Since 2000 some escaped Greater Rhea are living free in the Biosphere Reserve Schaalsee
Locality Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Rainer Mönke 4 November 2011 1 year ago 3.9 -
A dorsal view of a male with open wings, close to a female.
Locality Ceibas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp albescens)
Josep del Hoyo 24 September 2008 4 years ago 3.9 -
Adult male walking.
Locality Marwell Wildlife, Owslebury, Hampshire, England, Great Britain
Tomasz Doroń 11 April 2009 43 weeks ago 3.8 -
An individual looking for food.
Locality Pantanal, Brazil (ssp araneipes)
Joe Tobias 1 January 2004 1 year ago 3.8
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