Wow!! This colour thing! Does it make sense that it is the 'extremes' that really put the issue into perspective? This morning, I saw a magnificent big bird by the fig tree. Its head and neck, right down to its body, were jet black. Its body was just a touch lighter. It's the second darkest I've...
Okay, boys and girls . . .
Here are some videos that (mostly) show emus in identifiable places in Oz, so we know the species.
Go to ‘youtube desert emu.’ ‘Nambung’ is close to Perth. It’s not the South West – the range of the rothschildi – but I’m not sure if it’s ‘north’ enough to be in...
Yes!! It would be great to have photos of chicks of different species. I can't even easily find photos of adults of different species.
It may be appropriate to simply assume the existence of a fourth 'sub-species,' dromaius novaehollandiae middle-of-the-road-us, and that most of the chicks in...
Raptor, find below a quotation from a Website about emus. This stuff confuses as much as instructs. Okay, the rothschildi is darker in colour – but doesn’t that mean overall, as a sub-species? I suppose that all the emus around here are rothschildi, but they range in colour from quite light to...