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The largest bird in the Americas, the Greater Rhea is a big, flightless, gray-brown ratite that roams the grasslands and pampas of South America. It sprints across open country on powerful legs, using its long neck to watch for danger. Flocks graze on plants, seeds, and insects, sometimes alongside grazing mammals.
Fun Fact
Male rheas do all the parenting — incubating eggs from many females in one nest and raising the chicks alone.
Attributes
TypeFlightless
Habitatgrassland
SizeLarge
Dietomnivore
FlightFlightless
Colorsgray, brown
MigratoryNo
ContinentsSouth America
Nest Typeground
ConservationNear Threatened
Difficulty: hard
