Talk:Rhea (bird)

message: The text mentions Rhea Americanus.
One figure mentions Rhea americana and Rhea pennata.
Another figure mentions six species.
Have the rhea been evolving while the article was written?
: the article's also confused as to whether there are 2 or 3 species.  I suspect the 3rd is newly named and a sloppy edit has been done.  PS of the quoted 6 species (above), 4 are extinct (marked with dagger) Chrismorey (talk) 07:24, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Species

message: As birds descend from/are related to theropod dinosaurs, some birds still have or had claws on their wings, such as Archaeopteryx, Turaco and the Hoatzin (but more, I guess that Alvarezsaurus nowadays is regarded as a bird, and some Phorusrhacos-like bird). I think that Thea is also one of these, as it was mentionend in an earlier version of this text (now found on some delayed "mirror" site)  and in this brief mention on Dinosaur Mailing List. So, as Jerry Seinfeld would say, what's the deal with Rheas wing claws? --Extremophile 00:37, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: IONO, but all those clawed birds apparently have claws as a re-emergent trait (just like teeth are apparently not "buried" that deeply in birds) these things seem to pop up every now and then. So it may be possible in the rhea too. But I am not a ratite speciealist. (The alvarezsaurids are not generally considered bird ATM, but that all boils down to some intricacies of cladistics and might change though I'd rather say not and rather: remarkable case of parallel evolution. Basically, what makes them bird-like has been recognized to not be unique to birds in the meantime). Dysmorodrepanis 13:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  claws on their toes only or also in their wings? 

message: Why is the image of the "Head of a Rhea (detail)" entitled "Caput_dromaius_novaehollandiae.JPG"? It does appear to be a Rhea, but 'Dromaius novaehollandiae' is the Emu. Lusanaherandraton 08:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Head detail image 

message: Are lesser rheas farmed?  If (as I suspect) not, this section refers only to the greater, and it should be moved there – perhaps with a brief mention in the leading paragraph here, making it clear which species is meant.--Richard New Forest 08:58, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rhea farming

message: * how big are these things?   brain (talk) 14:59, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: about 5 feet 5 inches tall. Cant find the weight though. Docku:“what up?” 05:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  requested info: size 

message: recently updated the taxobox on this page to change the order from Struthioniformes to Rheiformes.  I have reverted these changes for the time being.  I understand that the taxonomy of birds is a tricky subject, but it strikes me that this change is not "non-controversial" and should be discussed here first.  Please express any opinions regarding this change here.  If no objection is made, I will restore this change.  I will also include this topic in discussion at WP:WikiProject Birds. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!!
18:31, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Order

message: There is no indication why "Nandu" redirects to this page. Snowman (talk) 08:41, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nandu 

message: :The rheas are ratites (flightless birds, with unkeeled sterna) in the genus Rhea, native to South America.
There should be one more link, but to Sternum, I guess, not to Sterna. --Schwab7000 (talk) 12:45, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sternum 

message: I noticed that all of the footnotes directly corresponded to one of the references. It seems redundant to me to have the exact same information duplicated, so I have removed the references section, renamed the footnotes section to references and changed all the references to in-line citations. No references have been completely removed, just reorganised. I also removed each instance of the same reference in the taxonomy section with a single instance of the reference at the beginning of the list. --teb00007 Talk • Contributions 18:28, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: IUCN has accepted Rhea tarapacensis (incl. garleppi) as a separate third species of rhea, following the 2014 review of Del Hoyo et al.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.14.40.189 (talk) 10:23, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third species 

message: Why does the full article not appear  - shown only in the index and "Edit source"? Phycodrys (talk) 13:02, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem! 

message: It would be very much appreciated if some one would add a photo for the Puna Rhea in the table.Puffin Crazy (talk) 16:12, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture for Puna Rhea