Bird of the Week – Week 119 – Sociable weaver
Sociable weavers are small birds with a length of about 14 cm and the sexes are alike in both size and plumage colouration. Their upper parts are scalloped with black and their under parts...
Tagged: Philetairus socius
Cape cobra raiding a Sociable weavers nest
The huge nests of the Sociable weaver (Philetairus socius) are quite common throughout the drier woodland and savanna of Namibia, clinging to trees and pylons like so many haystacks. Any literature on these colonially...
Sociable weaver’s nests – Nature’s condominiums!
On our first trip from South Africa to Namibia, we drove through the dry region of the Northern Cape and it was there that I first came across the fascinating nests of the Sociable...
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