Bird genealogy >> Order Passeriformes >> Family Ploceidae
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Location

Onguma Safari Camps
Namibia

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 640 mm
Exposure 1/640 s, f/8, ISO 400 
Image size 800 x 534 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Blutschnabelweber Dutch  Roodbekwever
Italian  Quelea beccorosso Spanish  Quelea común

Comments

Red-billed Queleas are the most abundant wild bird species in the world, with an estimated adult breeding population of 1.5 billion pairs. They are confined to sub-saharan Africa. They live and breed in colonies which may cover 100 hectares and which attract a huge variety of predators (storks, raptors, owls, rollers, shrikes, grey hornbills, redbill woodhoopoes, corvids as well as snakes, rodents and carnivores).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_Quelea




 

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    16/08/2011

Red-billed Quelea
Quelea quelea
Travailleur à bec rouge

Micheline JACQUEMIN