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780, White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali (see species summary here)Record status ACCEPTED Vm 2269 [on-line data upload (2012-04-23): 16742] Species White-browed Sparrow-weavers Observer(s) Archer A.M. Country, town, locus South Africa, North West, Klerksdorp,
2626DALocality Road behind Faan Meintjies Latitude, longitude -26.6935161715636, 26.7287278175354 [5 m accuracy] Date 2012/4/23 Notes Nest count 24 Nest site tree
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Note: repeats from the same day are not shown.vm Species code Date Nests Notes 801 780 20/5/2011 22 939 780 30/7/2011 21 Second submission for this site 1076 780 21/8/2011 21 Dieter done before but cannot find on previous photos. Have gazeteered from now 1114 780 3/9/2011 18 1605 780 3/12/2011 15 1808 780 8/1/2012 18 2269 780 23/4/2012 24 3068 780 27/9/2012 19 3756 780 7/11/2012 12 Klerksdorp is very dry and many weaver colonies seem smaller to me 4088 780 24/11/2012 15 5300 780 29/3/2013 8 Farmer has cut down large portion of this tree. The WBSW are busily rebuilding as fast as they can 5629 780 26/5/2013 12 Tree has been cut down severely but bird have already established new nests 5835 780 23/6/2013 11 This is the second time I have come across a Common Myna hassling the White-browed Sparrow-weavers. The Weavers were highly agitated and flew around the Myna. The Myna seemed to be trying to get into the nests although I never managed to see him actually taking anything. 7484 780 24/11/2013 14 Farmer seems to be cutting down tree. Only single branch left. 8414 780 15/1/2014 14 8695 780 5/2/2014 10 Nest seem very dead? 11424 780 15/6/2014 16 13909 780 27/10/2014 16 14381 780 26/11/2014 23 14534 780 30/11/2014 11 The tree is collapsing bit by bit. 17632 780 21/9/2015 18 18320 780 18/11/2015 12 This tree has almost disappeared. 18504 780 12/12/2015 7 Cape Glossy Starlings also using hole in the dead tree as a nest. 18733 780 24/1/2016 4 Tree is falling over! 19871 780 3/6/2016 8 21957 780 26/6/2016 7 I am not sure if these nests are still being used. Tree is slowly but surely toppling over. There were birds in the neighbourhood. 
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