Emu: Head

Class:

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

Order:

Flightless Birds (Struthioniformes)

Family:

Emu (Casuariidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

This Photo:

Head

Thank you Antoni Camozzato & (Teaa981 ) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges 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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