Ostrich

Description:

Distinctive in its appearance, with a long neck and legs. Ostrich is the largest living species of bird and lays the largest egg of any living bird. Their eyes are said to be the largest of any land vertebrate. Their skin varies in colour depending on the sub-species. The strong legs of the Ostrich are unfeathered and show bare skin, with the tarsus (the lowest upright part of the leg) being covered in scales – red in the male, black in the female. The bird has just two toes on each foot (most birds have four), with the nail on the larger, inner toe resembling a hoof. The outer toe has no nail

Habitat:

taken at a natural zoo area