Pterocnemia pennata


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Noun1.Pterocnemia pennata - smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toedPterocnemia pennata - smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan
nandu, rhea
flightless bird, ratite, ratite bird - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
genus Pterocnemia, Pterocnemia - a genus of birds of the family Rheidae
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Avifauna de Tacna en la ruta del censo de suri Pterocnemia pennata. INRENA.
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Cannon ME, Carpenter R, Ackerman RA (1986) Synchronous hatching and oxygen consumption of Darwin's rhea eggs (Pterocnemia pennata).
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Rhea americana is one of two rhea species, which also includes the lesser or Darwin rhea (Pterocnemia pennata) and both species are native to South America (Huchzermeyer, 2000).
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El raquis de una pluma de suri local (Pterocnemia pennata) en capa 2(9) es similar a aquellos en los faldellines asociados a restos humanos en Pena de las Trampas 1.1 (Martinez 2012).
Continuidades e hiatos ocupacionales durante el holoceno medio en el borde oriental de la puna salada, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentina

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