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Rhea pennata (Lesser Rhea; Darwin's Rhea)

Synonyms: Pterocnemia pennata; Pteroicnemia pennata

Infraspecies

Rhea pennata garleppi (Darwin's rhea)
Rhea pennata pennata (Darwin's rhea)
Rhea pennata tarapacensis (Puna rhea)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
15
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
52
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 30.7901
EDGE Score: 4.1523
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  48.337 lbs (21.925 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  387 grams
Female Weight [1]  44.093 lbs (20.00 kg)
Male Weight [1]  52.581 lbs (23.85 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  19.3 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  30 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  17
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  4.961 inches (126 mm)
Egg Width [1]  3.622 inches (92 mm)
Incubation [3]  40 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Chuquiraga erinacea hystrix[5]
Lecanophora ameghinoi[5]
Lycium chilensis[5]
Prosopis alpataco (mesquite)[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 5Puig, S., Cona, M. I., Videla, F., & Méndez, E. (2013). Diet selection by the lesser rhea (Rhea pennata pennata) in Payunia, Northern Patagonia (Mendoza, Argentina). Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias UNCUYO, 45(1), 211-224.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0