Emu: Adult Male, profile

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Flightless Birds (Struthioniformes)

Family:

Emu (Dromaidae)

Species:

Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

This Photo:

Adult Male, profile

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Big ugly bird, in fact the biggest Australian native bird, but perhaps not the ugliest

Runs very fast (up to 50km/hr), is very tall (nearly 2m) and timid.
They have a scruffy white collar in breeding season.
Their lower beak is serrated, designed for grazing.
The male looks after the eggs & young. While incubating them he doesn't eat, drink or defecate!
It's not generally possible to determine gender visually.

This species is classed as

LC (Least Concern)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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