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Birds Other birds Common
Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
Buffelwewer · Bubalornis niger
A scruffy, sooty-black weaver with a heavy red bill, usually in noisy colonies. It builds huge, untidy communal stick nests in big trees and on windmills. One of the 'Little Five'.
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Untidy black bird with a stout red-orange bill; messy, bulky stick nests in the tree tops.
Listen for its call
Noisy jumbled chattering and squawks around its messy stick nests.
Where to see it in Kruger
Common in the central and northern bushveld, often around camps and waterholes.
Did you know
Several pairs share one giant ramshackle nest — a 'block of flats' of separate chambers.
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