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Sociable Weaver's nest (Philetarius socius)

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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 photo of windflowers43 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 photo of 854847 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 photo of mabelscritterart 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 photo of abegweit 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 photo of foxyfloridalady foxyfloridalady 2007.05.10 at 20:02:23 PDT

  • Ohhh this is so wonderful, one big great building made by birds, its amazing!

    said photo of _yoko12 _yoko12 2007.05.10 at 09:27:15 PDT

  • So interesting! Thanks for sharing.

    said photo of lovejoy lovejoy 2007.05.10 at 06:42:11 PDT

  • Very interesting!

    said photo of dannywhitedog dannywhitedog 2007.05.10 at 06:41:07 PDT

  • Wow this is fantastic I have never heard of this bird

    said photo of jillbatchelor2 jillbatchelor2 2007.05.09 at 08:37:36 PDT

  • Really incredible and very interesting!!A true miracle of the nature!!Stunning shot!!:-)

    said photo of ambra2005 ambra2005 2007.04.24 at 19:19:23 PDT

  • It is hard to believe what these birds construct!!!!

    said photo of hamiltrudy1 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 photo of ladybug591 ladybug591 2007.04.24 at 01:02:54 PDT

  • This nest is almost a miracle..

    said photo of oomt oomt 2007.04.23 at 13:59:50 PDT

  • Fantastic image and comment, thank You Suresh!

    said photo of pfjc pfjc 2007.04.23 at 02:53:34 PDT

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