Where Do Emus And Cassowaries Live. The flightless Emu is Australia's largest bird. They typically live in the rainforest, but also venture into grassland.
Where does the name cassowary come from? 'Cassowary' originates from two Papuan words: 'kasu' (meaning horned) and 'wari' (meaning head). It is slightly smaller than emu and ostrich. These birds are native to Australia and were previously termed as Tasmanian Bird for the reason that few of these species once lived in Tasmania.
Cassowaries are the only genus of large flightless birds of the family of casuarous cassowaries, which live in the tropical forests of New Guinea and the north-east of Australia.
Like Cassowaries, they swallow stones to help them grind food in their gizzard.
The third and largest—the southern cassowary—also lives in the Wet Tropics of northern Queensland, in the part of Australia that sticks up at New Guinea like a. The only two birds that grow taller are ostriches and emus. Ostriches are in the same order as cassowaries, emus, kiwis and rheas.