White-Headed Buffalo Weaver

Scientific name: Dimenellia Dinemelli ORIGIN: The white-headed buffalo weaver is found in Eastern Africa, mainly in northern Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. They usually habitat in dry savanna, acacia woodland and open thorn scrub. REPRODUCTION: Buffalo weavers reside in loose colonies in the open. They build their nests in a fork of branches high on a tree. The nest is a big, unclean structure of coarse grasses and twigs with a short tube like entrance at the bottom. Warm lining is offered by feathers and fine grasses and the construction of the nest is carried out by both the birds. The size of the clutch ranges and it can store 3 to 5 eggs. They are greenish-white in color and sometimes marked with brown or red spots with streaks as the cap end. The period of incubation last for about 2 weeks and the young, which mostly feeds on small seeds and insects, grows and develops in 3 weeks. HABITAT DESIGN: The White-Headed Buffalo Weaver grow and develop in an environment with dense shrubbe