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799, Cape Weaver Ploceus capensis (see species summary here)Record status ACCEPTED Vm 6896 [on-line data upload (2013-08-07): 48108] Species Cape Weaver Observer(s) Oschadleus HD Country, town, locus South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town,
3318DCLocality Pinelands 2 - Crescent Gums Latitude, longitude -33.94145, 18.50538 [0 m accuracy] Date 2008/10/6 Notes At least 3 males; at least 1 female; 15+43 nests, chicks heard; Much activity: chasing, displaying, etc Nest count 58 Nest site tree
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History of repeat colony counts
Note: repeats from the same day are not shown.vm Species code Date Nests Notes 6900 799 9/10/2005 70 At least 8 males; at least 1 female; Much activity: chasing, displaying, etc,. 6894 799 20/6/2006 37 5 males; 10 green nests, the rest were old nests; 3 old nests in plane; Much activity: chasing, displaying, etc. 6895 799 14/9/2006 58 At least 4 males; at least 3 females; 3 females into nests or fed chicks; Much activity: chasing, displaying, etc 6902 799 2/10/2007 51 At least 7 males; at least 2 females; 31+20 nests,5+2 males. Hadeda nest not seen (or few old sticks) 6896 799 6/10/2008 58 At least 3 males; at least 1 female; 15+43 nests, chicks heard; Much activity: chasing, displaying, etc 2632 799 4/8/2012 39 at least 2 males, at least 1 female 2827 799 4/9/2012 36 at least 3 males, several breeding type nests 3239 799 9/10/2012 31 colony of 31 nests in gum trees [qv - but 1 male and 1 nest now in adjacent plane tree] 3747 799 6/11/2012 31 green nests present [qv 4 nests in plane] 4279 799 9/12/2012 30 no weavers seen 5906 799 18/6/2013 22 Old Hadeda nest; 1+ males, much activity: chasing, displaying, etc. 5930 799 28/6/2013 23 4 males, but 7 were seen (most likely from neighboring colony); 6 green nests and 1 ring; much activity 5975 799 1/7/2013 23 4 males (3 were seen); 5 green nests; less activity than usual; female visited and although no displaying 5976 799 3/7/2013 22 4 males, although saw about 6; there could possibly be more males in colony, or they may just be visiting; lots of displaying; 6 green nests; female was seen for long period of time in a nest 6201 799 5/7/2013 26 Possibly 5 males, although only saw 3; 6 green nests and 1 ring; Not as much activity as usual because of maintenance workers nearby and heavy wind 6202 799 7/7/2013 25 8 green nests and 1 ring; I believe there's 5 males with nest in colony, although I saw 7, probably from nearby colony; Female nested in a nest 6287 799 12/7/2013 27 6 males but saw about 8, probably from nearby colony; 14 green nests; two males seen copulating outside nests 6740 799 30/7/2013 35 About 6 residential males and 19 green nests; a lot of activity; 4 females seen inside different nests; black crows seen nearby and was told by resident that she had seen several predating on the nests; one male had nested in a subcolony in a nearby nest where there had previously been 2 old, abandoned nests 6846 799 2/8/2013 39 about 6 males and 21 green nests and 2 rings; much less activity than usual, despite good weather; 5 females seen inside different nests 11291 799 17/5/2014 23 old nests, 23 nests in gum, 10 nests in nearby plane 13880 799 11/10/2014 26 no weavers seen, 26 nests in gum [5 nests in plane tree] 14837 799 28/2/2015 18 old nests, 18 nests in gum [6 nests in plane] 18919 799 27/2/2016 12 in vith 16892 19002 799 13/3/2016 15 5 nests with roosting single Cape Weavers or Cape Sparrow pairs:
N1: 1 cw, f?, brN, hd tuck
N2: 1 cw, m, NBN, hd tuck
N3: 2 csp, m+f, brN [fs], hd /tuck
N4: 2 csp, m+f, NBN, hd tuck
N5: 1 cw, imm m [dark bill], NBN, hd
19083 799 10/4/2016 10 weavers and sparrows roosting in nests, in vith 17291; N1: 1 csp, f?,brN, hd tuck
N2: 1 csp, m,brN, hd tuck
N3: 2 csp, m+f,brN, hd tuck
N4: 1cw, f],brN, hd tuck
N5: 1cw, m,NBN, hd tuck 19268 799 8/5/2016 12 green nest; N1: 1 cw f, brN, hd tuck;
N2: 1 csp m, brN, hd;
N3: 1 cw m, NBN, hd;
N4: 1 csp m, brN, hd tuck;
N5: 1 cw m, NBN, hd 20163 799 5/6/2016 9 night checks:
N1: 1cw f, NBN, hd
N2: 1csp m, brN], hd tuck
N3: 1cw m, NBN, hd tuck
N4: 1csp m, NBN], hd tuck
N5: 1csp m, brN, hd
21986 799 26/6/2016 10 night checks - Cape Sparrow and weaver -
N1: 1csp m, NBN, hd tuck
N2: 1cw [imm], NBN, hd
N3: 1cw m, NBN, hd
23399 799 31/7/2016 11 3+8 nests, in gum (vith 19304), N1: 1cw m, NBN, tail!
24568 799 3/11/2016 9 24881 799 1/1/2017 10 old 26156 799 21/4/2017 9 birds roosting in old nests: male CW, pair of cape Sparrows 26532 799 24/9/2017 2 old nests 27698 799 12/8/2018 0 no nests, tree mostly leafless 27854 799 13/10/2018 0 no nests 
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