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Location

Grootvlei, Western Cape
South Africa

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 304 mm
Exposure 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 400 
Image size 800 x 533 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Maskenweber Dutch  Maskerwever
Italian  Tessitore mascherato meridionale Spanish  Tejedor enmascarado

Comments

A weaver ready to enter its nest. Rejected courting males may tear down their nest and start again. It is said that exhausted males succomb to the strain and that successful weavers may have a short life span.

Jensen RAC . (1989): in The Complete Book of Southern African Birds, p 660.




 

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    09/08/2011

Southern Masked Weaver male
Ploceus velatus
Tisserin à tête rousse

Micheline JACQUEMIN