Sociable Weaver's nest (Philetarius socius) pictures from africa photos on webshots

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The sociable weaver is a very common little brown bird in the desert region of southern Africa. Sociable weavers are unlike most other birds due to their lifestyle and nest building: they weave one nest for their entire colony as well as for future residents. This is no ordinary nest; it is massive, like a giant apartment block occupied by up to 100 sociable weaver families all year long. From a distance, the sociable weaver nest may resemble a haystack hanging in a tree. But if you crawl under the nest and look up you will see the entrances to the different chambers within the nest. There may be 5 to 100 nesting chambers in a single sociable weaver nest, providing a home for 10 to 400 birds!

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The ultimate condominium. Wow, I am so impressed that one kind of bird would be this sociable to include so many others. Thank you for educating us on this amazing bird.

said windflowers43 2007.08.26 at 07:32:09 PDT
Wow! This is an amazing little bird - and a wonderfully sculptured tree, magnificent captured and described. It looks amazing against the blue sky with those wonderful far away mountains. Once again I have to say: it is such a pity the Webshot slideshow does not include the captions but only the titles of the pictures. But I am getting used to look at your albums by the Desktop utility which still includes the captions. Thanks for all your wonderful descriptions. They make your albums to jewels - in the sand . . . .

said 854847 2007.06.28 at 18:25:36 PDT
this is a great tree and a fantastic nest ... wonderful information on their apartment building ~ yes, very sociable indeed.

said mabelscritterart 2007.06.06 at 20:03:35 PDT
I've seen weavers' nests in Kenya and marveled at them. But this is amazing! Thanks for the photos and the lesson in nature.

said abegweit 2007.05.14 at 07:03:41 PDT
I see why they call them sociable... like a condo for birds. love the shot against the blue sky..

said foxyfloridalady 2007.05.10 at 20:02:23 PDT
Ohhh this is so wonderful, one big great building made by birds, its amazing!

said _yoko12 2007.05.10 at 09:27:15 PDT
So interesting! Thanks for sharing.

said lovejoy 2007.05.10 at 06:42:11 PDT
Very interesting!

said dannywhitedog 2007.05.10 at 06:41:07 PDT
Wow this is fantastic I have never heard of this bird

said jillbatchelor2 2007.05.09 at 08:37:36 PDT
Really incredible and very interesting!!A true miracle of the nature!!Stunning shot!!:-)

said ambra2005 2007.04.24 at 19:19:23 PDT
It is hard to believe what these birds construct!!!!

said hamiltrudy1 2007.04.24 at 14:17:15 PDT
This photo and the next one, brought me back to look again. Thank you for your teaching us about the Sociable Weavers!

said ladybug591 2007.04.24 at 01:02:54 PDT
This nest is almost a miracle..

said oomt 2007.04.23 at 13:59:50 PDT
Fantastic image and comment, thank You Suresh!

said pfjc 2007.04.23 at 02:53:34 PDT