Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Sociable Weaver

Philetairus socius

Habitat:

Arid savanna and dry woodland

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

9 Comments

injica
injica 11 years ago

Magic from Africa :) Really like all your photos!

Harsha Singh
Harsha Singh 11 years ago

That's a great colony! Awesome!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 11 years ago

Another article about Sociable Weavers' nests: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shorts...

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 11 years ago

Article with cool pictures about Sociable Weavers' nests: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cult...

VanessaVermaak
VanessaVermaak 11 years ago

Just read -The largest nest of any bird, with up to 500 chambers. Very cool!

Kei Heyns
Kei Heyns 11 years ago

Very cool, very social!

Noe and Pili
Noe and Pili 12 years ago

Wow! I wonder how many birds are sleeping there each night...

lori.tas
lori.tas 13 years ago

Those are amazing.

jamerbean
jamerbean 13 years ago

What amazing nests!

VanessaVermaak
Spotted by
VanessaVermaak

Mier Local Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa

Spotted on Apr 27, 2008
Submitted on Mar 23, 2011

Related Spottings

SOCIABLE WEAVER NEST Sociable Weaver SOCIABLE WEAVER NEST Sociable weaver nest

Nearby Spottings

Spotted Hyaena Pygmy Falcon Pale Chanting goshawk African Cheetah
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team