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	Weaver, Birds, Weaver, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Weavers usually have bodies 7.5 to 25 cm (3 to 10 in) long but are variable in total length because some, like the African whydah Coliuspasser progne, have long tails, sometimes 63 cm (25 in) in length.
		Weavers are generally sedentary and primarily arboreal, but they do spend much time on the ground in search of food.
		The nest of the social weaver, Philetairus socius, is particularly elaborate, with vertical tunnels leading to canopied retort-shaped chambers.
	www.4to40.com /earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=103 (264 words)

	AllRefer.com - weaver bird (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Of the 35 sparrow weavers the best known, and in fact one of the most widely distributed and familiar small birds in the world, is the English sparrow native to Europe, W Asia, and N Africa.
		Most specialized of the sparrow weavers is the social weaver of Africa, famous for its apartment-house nest, in which 100 to 300 pairs have separate flask-shaped chambers entered by tubes at the bottom.
		Many of the weaver family are kept as cage birds, especially the colorful waxbills (e.g., the Java sparrow, mannikin, munia, grenadier, cutthroat, and cordon-bleu, locust, parrot, Gouldian, and fire finches).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/weaverbi.html (488 words)

	Birds as Builders
		Birds, far more than any other animal besides man, are notable for their tendency to build a home in which to raise their young, and in some cases to use all year round.
		Birds are not the only animals to make a nest; fishes, mammals, insects and spiders also build nests, sometimes quite complex ones, for rearing young and for their own general protection.
		Whatever their shape, nearly all weavers make their nests out of grass and the nests are truly woven with the bird moving from side to side, poking part of the strand of grass through the wall from the side and then pulling it completely through from the other.
	www.earthlife.net /birds/nests.html (5251 words)

	Weaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches.
		These are seed-eating birds with rounded conical bills, most of which breed in sub-Saharan Africa, with fewer species in tropical Asia.
		They sometimes cause crop damage, notably the Red-billed Quelea, reputed to be the world's most numerous bird.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weaver (154 words)

	The Life of Birds \| Parenthood
		Birds quickly form and lay an egg covered in a protective shell that is then incubated outside the body.
		These are the "brood parasites," birds which never build their own nests and instead lays their eggs in the nest of another species, leaving those parents to care for its young.
		Birds find it pays to deceive their partner as they seek to gain the edge over others of their species, and ensure that their chicks grown to maturity and carry on the lineage.
	www.pbs.org /lifeofbirds/home/index.html (3042 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Birds
		Birds are vertebrates, with a backbone and skeleton, although some of the bones are hollow to keep the bird light.
		Birds incubate their eggs until they hatch.Then the parents continue to care for their young, bringing food to the nest site as needed.
		The bird that flies the fastest is the white-throated spine-tail swift Hirundapus caudacutus, at 110 miles per hour (177 kilometers per hour), and the bird that lives the longest is the sulphur-crested cockatoo Cacatua galerita, which has been recorded to live more than 80 years.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/a-birds.html (331 words)

	birds
		The mounted collections of birds now occupy the lower matn hall of the old Smithsonian building; but these are only a portion of the Museum's possessions in ornithology, the catalogue enumerating nearly 150,000 specimens, about four-fifths of which are held in reserve for study and exchange, The laboratory occupies a gallery of this hall.
		They are birds of the forest, and as these are broadest in tropical America, it is there that the greatest proportion of this order is found, though no region of the world is without its representatives.
		Passing by a number of groups of tropical birds, many of which have striking plumages and remarkable habits, we come to the king-fishers, the European and American types of which are dull of hue beside the prismatic beauty of the oriental varieties, whose feathers are in great demand for making certain articles of of jewelry.
	www.150.si.edu /siarch/handbook/birds.htm (2607 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Animals birds - weaver bird nests
		Weaver birds form the most elaborate nests of any birds.
		The male bird weaves the nest and uses it as a form of display to lure a prospective female.
		Weaver birds are social birds who abide by the adage "birds of a feather flock together." They usually group their nests together, often several to a branch.
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afanimals/birds/weavernest.shtml (231 words)

	Weaver birds let their guard down - evolution - 03 December 2005 - New Scientist
		African village weaver birds, like many other species, can be fooled into raising cuckoo chicks at the expense of their own.
		David Lahti at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst compared populations of weaver birds in South Africa, which are parasitised by Diederik cuckoos, with those on the islands of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and Hispaniola in the Caribbean, where there are no cuckoos.
		The weaver birds were introduced to the islands 100 and 200 years ago respectively.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/life/evolution/mg18825285.000-weaver-birds-let-their-guard-down.html (269 words)

	Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, , Legends, Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali profile, Salim Ali began an ambitious project in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The months he had spent watching the weaver birds also taught Salim Ali the importance of making first-hand observations and not to accept blindly the notions of any one, however famous.
		This bird was believed to have been extinct for 100 years until he discovered it in the Kumaon hills.
		According to the observations of Salim Ali, in a weaver bird colony the chief architects and craftsmen are always the males.
	www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_salimali (1062 words)

	Jungle Photos Africa Animals birds - weaver bird natural history
		Weaver birds (Family: Ploceidae) are medium-sized passerines, about seven to eight inches (18-20 cm) long, and widespread in Asia and Africa.
		Weaver birds are the architects of the bird world.
		The best weaver birds have the ability to tie dozens of different shaped knots and loops for which they use their feet as well as beaks.
	www.junglephotos.com /africa/afanimals/birds/ploceusnathist.shtml (823 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		weaver bird WEAVER BIRD [weaver bird] name for the Ploceidae, a family of Old World seed-eating birds closely resembling finches (hence the alternate name weaver finch).
		Weaver, James Baird WEAVER, JAMES BAIRD [Weaver, James Baird] 1833-1912, American political leader, b.
		Weaver, Robert Clifton WEAVER, ROBERT CLIFTON [Weaver, Robert Clifton] 1907-, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1966-68), b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=weaver (611 words)

	Weavers
		Weaver nests are so characteristic that they occupy several pages of plates in Zimmerman et al.'s (1996) new field guide to east Africa.
		The bird itself is quite a large weaver (below) and is entirely endemic to the small island of Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea.
		I tend to think of weavers as an African family, but there are few weavers that occur in India, and fewer still that range as far east as Sumatra and Java.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/weavers.html (695 words)

	Birds - The Weaver Bird
		The Weaver birds which are included in this division, are a very interesting species.
		They belong to Africa, where they hang their nests upon trees, those of the sociable weaver birds giving the trees the appearance of partially thatched wall-less structures.
		This is the commencement of the structure; and each bird builds its particular nest under this canopy, the upper surface remaining void without, however, being useless; for, as it has a projecting rim and is a little inclined, it serves to let the rain water run off and preserve each little dwelling from the rain.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles03/birds23.shtml (190 words)

	Weavers and Whydahs
		Weavers and whydahs are related to the common house sparrow.
		Although the cock bird can be "paired up" with multiple hens, the best results are often found with a one hen with one cock bird in an aviary of their own.
		Weavers and whydahs are seed eaters that require significant quantities of live food to raise their young.
	www.birdcare.com.au /weavers_&_wydahs.htm (1962 words)

	Dr.Gift Siromoney's Home Page
		Birds such as the Baya feed on insects thereby controlling insects population There appear to be more seed-eating birds on campus now compared to ten years ago when there was not so much paddy cultivation.
		It also eats eggs and nestlings of birds and is known to destroy the nests of weaver birds and eat their eggs and the young ones.
		Last September, a nest of the weaver bird hung on a creeper for decoration was occupied by a pair of White-backed Munias and four white eggs were noticed.
	www.cmi.ac.in /gift/Nature/natu_newvisitors.htm (709 words)

	The Diaries of James Chapin: Book 3
		Only the very ordinary birds about our camp were noticed today, bee-eaters being as common as usual, a small green cuckoo being seen, as well as heard, and a coucal also showing himself plainly on a leafless bush, contrary to their usual secretive custom.
		A small fl-headed weaver, like that collected the day before yesterday (no. 467), was seen today, feeding with a flock of three of the commoner species of small weavers in the high grass.
		The fl boy told me of a large bird that was catching the bats, and as we approached a fl and white vulture flew out of the top of the tree, but whether he was guilty of the deed is not at all certain.
	diglib1.amnh.org /articles/chapin_diary/book3_nov.html (4047 words)

	3.3 Wildlife and forestryagriculture
		Many species of birds and mammals such as bats, monkeys, baboons and squirrels are known to spread fruit trees by their feeding action.
		Other weaver birds which often cause seasonally localised but serious damage to grains include the red-headed quelea, Quelea erythrops, the red bishop Euplectes orix and the yellow crowned bishop E afra Ntiamoa-Baidu (1989) reports destruction of whole rice fields, mainly by these three species in northern Ghana.
		The population of birds at one roost monitored in the northern Ghana study increased from a total of 85,000 at the end of April when the birds started arriving in the area to over 400,000 within one month.
	www.fao.org /docrep/w7540e/w7540e0d.htm (691 words)

	Birding For Weaver Finches - BirdingGuide.com
		Bird rescue and bird adoption; parrot refuge/rescue and placement for unwanted birds.
		Migrating birds stay on track because of chemical reactions in their bodies that are influenced by the Earth's magnetic field...
		Conservationists along with bird specialists were speaking in Bangkok on the sidelines of the World Conservation Union meeting, attended by 6000 officials, scientists, excutives and environmentalists from around the world...
	www.birdingguide.com /bird_families/weaver_finches.htm (564 words)

	Birds
		Birds have always been important exhibits in zoos, and traditionally the more showy and brilliant the plumage, the better the exhibit, so far as zoo directors were concerned.
		Yet parrots worldwide are now an alarmingly threatened group of birds, and ironically their very attractiveness is often the cause of their decline as trappers mine the forest populations to satisfy the desires of collectors.
		There are to date very few sustained breeding schemes for popular tropical birds other than some parrots and pheasants, and zoos would do well to address this, not only for the benefit of the birds, but also to keep their bird houses well stocked up into the next century.
	www.goodzoos.com /Animals/birds.htm (1501 words)

	Uganda Birding -20 Memorable days
		Birding here includes seeing a variety of birds such as pelicans, ostrich, parrots, crowned cranes, weaver birds such as northern masked weaver, the orange weaver, fl necked baglafect, the northern masked weaver and the shoe bill storks.
		You are likely to encounter bird species such as the leaf love, willcocks honey guide, the joyful green bul, the superb fl bellied seed cracker, and the Bi coloured Mannikin, the yellow rumped tinker bird and yellow spotted nicator.
		Birds to lookout for include the brown eared Wood pecker, fawn breasted Waxbill, Sulphur breasted bush shrike, dark capped yellow warbler, bat hawks, the red headed blue bill, the African Finfoot and the Eurasian golden oriole.
	www.africanpearlsafaris.com /birding20.html (1886 words)

	weaver - definition by dict.die.net
		Weaver bird (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to Ploceus and allied genera of the family Ploceid[ae].
		Weaver birds resemble finches and sparrows in size, colors, and shape of the bill.
		These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly.
	dict.die.net /weaver (293 words)

	weaver bird - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		WEAVER BIRD [weaver bird] name for the Ploceidae, a family of Old World seed-eating birds closely resembling finches (hence the alternate name weaver finch).
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "weaver bird" at HighBeam.
		Bob Weaver: funny style, sunny spirit: Friends remembered Bob 'Weaver the Weatherman' Weaver as a broadcasting pioneer and a complete professional.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-weaverbi.html (572 words)

	Birds
		Birds are hard to catch with a camera.
		If you are really keen on bird pictures, remember to bring at least a 300mm lens.
		I got them in front of my lens because they were interested in some food I had with me. We had a lunch at a place that is a common picnic site with safari companies.
	levsen.org /kenya/wildlife/birds/birds.html (371 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Sociable Weavers
		But the birds build or add to their nest instinctively—they don't need training and can only create their dwelling place the same way their ancestors have done.
		The sociable weaver is a very common little brown bird in the Kalahari region of southern Africa.
		Sociable weavers are unlike most other birds due to their lifestyle and nest building: they weave one nest for their entire colony as well as for future residents.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-sociable_weavers.html (844 words)

	Of Birds and Bombs
		Now, in the falcon market in Doha, as we sat in a large circle in overstuffed armchairs, bringing a traditional majlis to mind, and sipped cups of sugary tea, the shop's owner went to a large, rectangular plot which was covered with sand, and retrieved a hooded saker which is used in the houbara hunts.
		The falcon is the fastest bird on earth, and the houbara is also fast, both on the ground and in the air.
		They follow the bird helter-skelter in their customized cars — brand new Mercedes 250s is what they used to bring.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF2004/Weaver01/Weaver01.html (1537 words)

	Birds of Southern Europe quiz -- free game
		Several of these birds can also be found elsewhere, but I guarantee you can see them all in my home country, Portugal.
		This endangered bird is one of the heaviest in the world.
		This small bird of prey is considered vulnerable by the IUCN, although it's very similar to a rather common species.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=188292 (273 words)

	Where do you want to go birding in Congo today?
		The Lendu Plateau is an isolated plateau situated west of Lake Albert, in the north-eastern Congo, surrounded by lowland savannah to the north, west and south, and Lake Albert to the east.
		African speciality birds, while not endemic, are those that can only be found in three or less countries of Africa.
		The endemic, endangered and speciality birds may be uncommon, extremely rare vagrants, may be extirpated in the country now or may only be present in migration.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/africacongo.htm (315 words)

	Buffalo Zoo Birds
		Birds eat a wide variety of foods from fruits and vegetables to worms and insects to seeds and nuts, but they don’t have teeth to chew those foods.
		Birds of prey like hawks and eagles that eat rodents and other small animals have special hooked beaks for picking and tearing meat.
		Shore birds like Wilson’s plover simply make a few scrapes on the ground or in the sand as nests while many perching birds like weaver birds make intricately woven or sculpted nests that hang from the ends of branches.
	www.buffalozoo.org /birds.html (688 words)

	PETCRAFT - Canaries and Other Cage-Bird Friends - Strawberry Finch
		Next to the canary, the weaver birds, or weaver finches (Family Ploceidae), are among the most popular of aviary birds, though here we deal with a great variety instead of a single kind.
		Weavers range in size from small to tiny, and are often of beautiful and striking plumage.
		Many years ago I saw in a bird store a pair of handsome but tiny birds that the dealer told me were strawberry finches (Color Plate IV).
	www.petcraft.com /docs/strawberryfinch.shtml (687 words)

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