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Weaver information for school projects
Answers to your queries about weavers
Weekly news items about weavers
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Projects

Survival rates in weavers, 2009-2012 For ringers
Natal dispersal in weavers on the Cape Peninsula For students & ringers
Weaver Watch Monitoring weaver colonies anywhere in the world
Quelea sightings Red-billed Quelea sightings in the Western Cape
A history of weavers Past distribution and range changes in weavers
A bibliography of weavers Finding all references to weavers

Travel

Namibian ringers get-together, Kakuse farm, 13-16 May 2010
Barberspan ringing conference and more, 11-22 March 2010
Weaver ringing trip to Limpopo Province, 2-6 Feb 2010
Red-billed Quelea breeding in the Worcester area, Western Cape, 20-21 April 2009
Weaver ringing trip to the bushveld, Feb 2009
60th anniversary, Ringing Conference at Ezemvelo, Dec 2008
PAOC Conference at Goudini Spa, Sep 2008
Trip to Tervuren, to study weaver type specimens, Aug 2008
Trip to Lubango, Angola, to catalogue specimens, Jun 2008
SAFRING national ringing workshop, Landela, 2005

Research

Survival rates in weavers, 2009-2012 For ringers
Natal dispersal in weavers on the Cape Peninsula For students & ringers
Natal dispersal in weavers on the Cape Peninsula - Phase 2 For students & ringers
Sir Andrew Smith publications
Bird atlasses
Weaver ringing on the Cape Peninsula, 2008
PhD thesis: Patterns of primary moult in the weavers, Ploceidae
Red-billed Quelea range expansion in the Western Cape, April-May 2007
The Redbilled Quelea Quelea quelea - bibliography and listserver
Poster - Polygyny and breeding activities in Thickbilled Weavers
Is the Cape Weaver population on Robben Island isolated?
Cape Weaver colonies on the Peninsula (uct site)
Leaf stripping in African weaverbirds, Bird Numbers 9(2)
Predicting polygyny in ploceids, Bird Numbers 10(2) (Scroll down and download pdf file, Pages 27-36)
Bird damage to agriculture, 2002

Ring results

Photo gallery of bird ringing in Cape Town, 2010
Weaver ringing on the Cape Peninsula, 2009
Photo gallery of bird ringing in Cape Town, 2009
Calendar of weaver ringing events in Cape Town
Weaver ringing in southern Africa
Weaver identification, ageing & sexing
Weaver ringing on the Cape Peninsula, 2008
Natal dispersal in weavers on the Cape Peninsula
SAFRING national ringing workshop, Landela, 2005
Redbilled Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser mahali
Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius
Forest Weaver Ploceus bicolor
Lesser Masked Weaver Ploceus intermedius
Redheaded Weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
Redbilled Quelea Quelea quelea
Cardinal Quelea Quelea cardinalis
Yellowrumped Widow Euplectes capensis
Redshouldered Widow Euplectes axillaris
Bertram's Weaver Ploceus bertrandi

Weaver species lists

List of South African weavers (with Atlas pdfs) <-- was list_sa.htm -->

Weavers of the world

See full list of links here
Special summaries about weavers:
Longevity in southern African weavers
Weaver eggs
Weaver nests
Threatened weavers of the world

Species summaries, including taxonomic history and identification - superseded by Weaver Wednesday
No. Latin Species Done
1 Amblyospiza albifrons Thick-billed Weaver
2 Anaplectes rubriceps Red-headed Weaver
5 Bubalornis niger Red-billed Buffalo-weaver
47 Plocepasser mahali White-browed Sparrow-weaver
54 Ploceus aureonucha Golden-naped Weaver
108 Ploceus velatus Southern Masked Weaver
117 Quelea quelea Red-billed Quelea
119 Sporopipes squamifrons Scaly-feathered Finch

Some external weaver links

BI, Threatened birds of the world

BI, Threatened weavers of the world
IBC, weaver videos
Weaver photos, birdpix.nl
"Werkgroep voor Ploceidae", captive weavers
SADC Quelea Breeding Forecast



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