Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Sociable Weaver
Philetairus socius
- epik
- 42 km/h
- Risiko rendah
A tiny bird famous for building enormous apartment-complex nests. Great social-network metaphor and very Roost-coded.
- Populasi
- Number of mature individuals not precisely quantified; described as common to abundant, with a population suspected stable in the absence of evidence of decline, across a ~1,080,000 km² range
- Habitat
- Arid savanna and thornveld of the southern Kalahari, favoring open grassland with scattered large trees (often Acacia/Vachellia) or artificial structures like telephone poles for nesting; dependent on stiff grasses (e.g. Stipagrostis ciliata) as nest material
- Fakta menarik
- Sociable Weavers build the largest communal nest structures of any bird — thatched, haystack-like mega-nests that can house 100+ breeding pairs and remain in continuous use for decades (some over a century).
- Sebaran
- Southern Africa: Extent of Occurrence ~1,080,000 km² across Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa (centered on Northern Cape Province), permanent resident, non-migratory
- Makanan
- Primarily insectivorous — insects (notably harvester termites) make up roughly 80% of the diet — supplemented with seeds and other plant matter, foraged mostly on the ground but also from bark/leaves; obtains water almost entirely from food rather than drinking
- Ukuran
- 0,14 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,25 m
- Masa hidup
- 3 tahun
