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Sociable
Weaver Nests:
The deceptively unassuming Sociable Weaver,
a skilled builder, is responsible for the vast thatch structures
that adorn many camelthorn trees and telephone poles in the
Kalahari and northern Karoo. Each of these great avian apartment
blocks is inhabited by up to several hundred birds, which use
the nest primarily as a buffer against the extremes of desert
temperature. Pygmy Falcon often appropriate nest chambers,
and you can identify falcon-inhabited nests by the ring of white
droppings around the chamber entrance.
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