Our Cape Weaver birds are back, building their characteristic nests in the big tree at the restaurant entrance, to lay their eggs in time to be hatched in spring.  They get their name from their intricately woven nests (the most elaborate of any birds’). They are very gregarious birds which breed colonially, building their nests together for protection, often several to a branch. Usually the male birds weave the nests and use them as a form of display to lure prospective females. One male can have up to eight females for whom he has to build nests – and if any of them is unhappy with the result, she will rip the nest apart, and he has to start all over again!

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