Greater Rhea

Taxonomy

Order

Rheiformes

Family

Rheidae

Genus

Rhea

eBird Code

grerhe1

Subspecies (5)

• Rhea americana albescens

  pampas of Argentina southward to Río Negro

• Rhea americana americana

  central and northeastern Brazil (to Rio Grande do Norte) to southern Brazil (southward to São Paulo and Paraná)

• Rhea americana araneipes

  western Brazil (southern Rondônia and Mato Grosso), eastern Bolivia, and western Paraguay (Chaco region)

• Rhea americana intermedia

  far southern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) and Uruguay

• Rhea americana nobilis

  eastern Paraguay (east of the Río Paraguay)