Red-billed Buffalo Weaver

Description:

With a body length of 24 cm and a body weight of 65 g, it is one of the greatest representatives of the weaver birds. The sexual dimorphism is not very pronounced. The plumage of the male is dark chocolate brown. On the front wing coverts and the wings of the springs are lined with white, the beak is mennigrot, the eyes are brown and the feet reddish brown. The females are dark chocolate brown solid color on the body top, on the chin and on the throat, the feathers with broad white hems. The flanks, the abdomen and the legs and the under tail-coverts are also dark brown. The beak is horn colored with the females dark, eyes dark brown and legs light brown. Juveniles are pale brown, her body underside is mottled white, the beak is orange yellow to pale reddish.

Habitat:

The Buffalo Weaver is endemic to southern Africa, the distribution is not continuous, in the Republic of South Africa, he occurs, for example on the high plateau, whereas it is absent in the lowlands. Among the African countries, where it occurs include not only the Republic of South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The habitat of the buffalo weaver is the dry savannah, he comes consisting among others in the Mopane and in sparse forests of acacia and baobab trees at altitudes of less than 1,500 meters of altitude before. It requires large trees, which explains the patchy occurrence in some regions for its nests the plant. He is in many parts of its range, a state bird, but it comes in some regions to seasonal migration. So he is missing during the dry season in the Kruger National Park and returns again until October in this South African National Park back.

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