PHOWN summaries and records

Virtual Museum View records in Virtual Museum format
Coverage map for all species
Species totals, Nest stats per species and Observer totals
Species summary , or General query

Observer records, or View VM record
Photo of the week, or PHOWN repeats, or PHOWN priorities

PHOWN record summary

Enter new vm record to see a different record and hit 'Go'.

vm:
Previous record Next record

Photos uploaded by observer

   
Large photos

Species allocated by Coordinator:


797, Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus (see species summary here)

Record details entered by participant: (see all records here for this participant)

Record statusACCEPTED
Vm3089 [on-line data upload (2012-10-01): 22827]
SpeciesVillage and Lesser Masked weavers
Observer(s)Zaloumis, Alex
Country, town, locusSouth Africa, Limpopo, Hoedspruit,
2430BD
LocalityWildlife Estate, Hoedspruit
Latitude, longitude-24.348888888889, 30.95875 [0 m accuracy]
Date2012/9/30
Notes2 large fever trees with many mostly old village & mostly lesser masked weaver nests hanging over entrance of Wildlife Estate entrance. Nests 65 plus 71 = 136 total (note 2 chambered nests)3 or 4 village weavers seen at very top of trees but mostly old nests - Red headed weaver nest found in lower reaches centre of pic 2.
Nest count0
Nest sitetree

Google map for this record (zoom in and switch to satellite view)


To see this map with all other PHOWN records, click here. Note that the map on this page will load very slowly and probably will only work if you use Chrome as a browser.

History of repeat colony counts

Note: repeats from the same day are not shown.

vmSpecies codeDateNestsNotes
308879230/9/201202 large fever trees with many mostly old village & mostly lesser masked weaver nests hanging over entrance of Wildlife Estate entrance. Nests 65 plus 71 = 136 total (note 2 chambered nests)3 or 4 village weavers seen at very top of trees but mostly old nests - Red headed weaver nest found in lower reaches centre of pic 2.
485779222/12/20120Revisted 3088 & 3099. mixed colony of village & lesser masked weavers. Decimated colony. 4 active weavers seen in trees. No new rings or green nests. 1st pic - was 65 nests now 25/6 of which 15/16 look viable(down from 65 plus). 2nd pic 37/38 nests of which 20 odd look viable. (down from 71). The Red Headed weaver nest reported (vm 3093) at the bottom of the 1st pic tree is barely recognisable. Spoke to guards about demise of colony. Snakes. No old nests on ground but it is a garden, so probably cleared up. Note: these snakes could easily reach the Hotel school pub colony (vm3692) a mere 80m away. Considering rapid re-growth of 3692 colony - birds probably moved away from this large colony due to predation.

Vm 3088

Vm 4857

Previous record Next record