Order Casuariformes:
- Have distinctive mirror feathers
Family Dromiceidae:
- Emus
- Females are larger
- Australia
- Fruit eating and insectivorous
- Some pairs are formed
Order Casuariformes:
- Have distinctive mirror feathers
Family Casuariidae:
- Cassowaries
- Australia and Tropical New Zealand
- 3 toes, 58 kg.
- eat vegetation and fruits
- very low vocalizations (like rumbling feathers)
- hypothesis that their unique crown is a resonating device
- first digit is a super-sharp claw
Order Apterygiformes:
- Kiwis! New Guinea and Australia
- Noctural burrowing small birds
- Nostrils near the tip of the beak – better for foraging and smell
- Sensory feathers around the beak area
- Endangered by mammals – massive protection programs in New Zealand now
- Lay largest egg for its body size of any bird
Order Rheiformes:
- - 2 species of Rhea
- - In the S. American Andes
- They eat Insects and vegitation
- 11-18 eggs per clutch
- polyandrous
Order Dinornithiformes:
- Moas
- Extinct New Zealand ratites
- Up to 10 foot holes
- 5 genera, 10 species, lived 1000 years ago
- probably extinct due to humans reaching islands
- extreme sexual size dimorphism (males are much larger)
Order Apterygiformes:
- Kiwis! New Guinea and Australia
- Noctural burrowing small birds
- Nostrils near the tip of the beak – better for foraging and smell
- Sensory feathers around the beak area
- Endangered by mammals – massive protection programs in New Zealand now
- Lay largest egg for its body size of any bird
Order Casuariformes:
- Have distinctive mirror feathers
Family Casuariidae:
- Cassowaries
- Australia and Tropical New Zealand
- 3 toes, 58 kg.
- eat vegetation and fruits
- very low vocalizations (like rumbling feathers)
- hypothesis that their unique crown is a resonating device
- first digit is a super-sharp claw
Family Dromiceidae:
- Emus
- Females are larger
- Australia
- Fruit eating and insectivorous
- Some pairs are formed
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