Black Greater Rhea
A variety of the Greater Rhea
Rhea · Cream eggs · Laying
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About the Black Greater Rhea
The largest bird in the Americas, the Greater Rhea is a tall, grey-brown flightless ratite of the South American grasslands, related to the ostrich and emu. The male is the sole parent — building the nest, incubating a big communal clutch and raising the young. Fast-running and adaptable, it's farmed for meat, feathers, eggs and leather. A near-threatened giant of the pampas.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Cream
- Eggs per year
- About 25
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 38 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- South America
- Scientific name
- Rhea americana