Greater rhea  (Rhea americana)

Range

The greater rhea is distributed throughout Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina (3) (12). Rhea americana americana is found in northeast and southeast Brazil, Rhea americana intermedia in the south of Brazil and Uruguay, Rhea americana nobilis in eastern Paraguay, Rhea americana araneipes in western Paraguay, eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil, and Rhea americana albescens in Argentina as far south as the Río Negro (2) (5) (9).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

The greater rhea typically inhabits tall grassland, open woodland and wooded savanna, such as the pampas, cerrado, and chaco woodland habitats of South America. The species can also be found in cultivated fields when the crop height is low (11), and occurs at elevations of up to 2,000 metres (2) (3) (12).

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