rhea

Doubling back, we saw a herd of rheas, the American ostrich, running across a field.

Rheas are mature at 2 years of age.

Male Greater Rheas are very territorial during the breeding season.

On the way back toward Toconao we saw a pair of rheas.

Eight birds, emus and rheas among them, were killed.

Several of the smaller rheas were seen in the distance, but were too elusive to catch.

It is also the best place to see rheas, large, flightless birds that look like ostriches.

Rheas congregate in flocks of 20 to 30 birds.

Greater rheas, a South American counterpart of the ostrich, are even bigger.

The rheas in Germany are legally protected in a similar way to native species.

The Rheas, they made Brandy what she is.

The Rheiformes (rheas) have two genera with one species each.

Unlike most birds, rheas have only three toes.

Rheas are polygamous, with males courting between two and twelve females.

Incubation is by the male birds only in the cases of Emus and Rheas.

Where they occur as pests, farmers tend to hunt and kill Greater Rheas.

While caring for the young, the males will charge at any perceived threat that approach the chicks including female rheas and humans.

Two rheas dash over the hill.

It was a joke because rheas, which look like small ostriches (only with an extra toe on each foot) cannot fly anyway.

The Rheas have said so.

Ostriches, emus, rheas, and cassowaries are the residents of this exhibit.

Rheas have many uses in South America.

Standing four feet tall and looking like gray ostriches, families of rheas ambled through the beige savannah.

Greater Rheas are half-grown about three months after hatching, and sexually mature by their 14th month.

They are among the largest ground-dwelling birds endemic of the Neotropics (only behind rheas).