Proud House Owner
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Red-headed Weaver.
The nest is built solely by the male, consisting of an upside-down bottle-shaped structure with a vertical entrance hole at the base, made of leaf midribs, twigs, grass stems, broad leaves and tendrils. Once it is approved by the female she lines the interior with bark fibers, feathers, dry grass or leaves. It is typically strung from a few twigs beneath the canopy of a tree. It often nests in the vicinity of other weaver species or even raptors. What is interesting is that the non-breading male as well as the female are yellow on the head.
Photographed in the wild near Mica, Limpopo, South Africa.
Proud House Owner
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
Red-headed Weaver.
The nest is built solely by the male, consisting of an upside-down bottle-shaped structure with a vertical entrance hole at the base, made of leaf midribs, twigs, grass stems, broad leaves and tendrils. Once it is approved by the female she lines the interior with bark fibers, feathers, dry grass or leaves. It is typically strung from a few twigs beneath the canopy of a tree. It often nests in the vicinity of other weaver species or even raptors. What is interesting is that the non-breading male as well as the female are yellow on the head.
Photographed in the wild near Mica, Limpopo, South Africa.