#Taveta Golden Weaver

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Taveta Golden-Weaver Ploceus castaneiceps

3/5/2023 San Diego Zoo, California

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Jambo! 🐯 🐘 🐼 🐒 🐦 Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail 

Taveta Golden Weaver of Disney's Animal Kingdom

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beasts part 2

went to the zoo today and saw a bunch of beasts (part 1)

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[herpsandbirds]

Do you have any pictures of birds doing things?

BIRDS DO ALL THE THINGS!

I may have a few photos of things being done for you...

Taveta Golden Weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps), male constructing nest, family Ploceidae, order Passeriformes, found in Tanzania and Kenya

photograph by Yi Park Soon

Flame Bowerbird (Sericulus ardens), male showing off a bright blue berry, family Ptilonorhynchidae, order Passeriformes,endemic to New Guinea

photograph by @dustinchen0728

Southern Ground Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri), male, eat a tasty bug!!!, family Bucorvidae, order Bucerotiformes, Kruger National Park, South Africa

photograph by Mogens Trolle

Vernal Hanging Parrot (Loriculus vernalis), hanging upside down...because, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, Maharashtra, India

photograph by Raj Dhage 

Three friends share a carcass and conservation at Potrero Ranch outside of Kingsville, TX, USA.

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus), family Cathartidae, order Accipitriformes

Harris Hawk’s aka Bay-winged Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes

Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus cheriway), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes

photograph by Josefina Espinosa Salumunek  

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Spring is slowly creeping into the Pacific Northwest, which means it's time for nest building! I've seen the fully-made nests of taveta golden weaver birds before, but had never gotten to watch the process of construction. The males in this colony-living species weave plant matter into complex hanging nests, and the quality of their weaving skills is what wins over the females!

For mid-February, the guy in the video sure had gotten a jump start on the process.

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Everyone else's nests in the aviary looked more like this:

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Taveta Golden Weaver, Disney's Animal Kingdom

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Taveta Golden Weaver, cellarbirdphotography

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Happy Birthday, @masenkoha! I thought you might enjoy some of the lovely birds from the National Aviary in Pittsburgh.

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Taveta Golden Weaver by meeko_

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Taveta Golden-Weaver Ploceus castaneiceps

6/17/2023 San Diego Zoo, California

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ᴛᴀᴠᴇᴛᴀ ɢᴏʟᴅᴇɴ ᴡᴇᴀᴠᴇʀ ʙʏ ᴊᴜᴅʏ ᴡʜɪᴛᴛᴏɴ

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I travel to zoos often. I been to a lot, and over the years have managed to get increasingly better at photography. So I thought I would share some of my proudest ones with you all. I did retouching on them on photoshop. The zoos these animals came from were Turtle Back Zoo, Zoo Atlanta and Kansas City Zoo. I have 0 idea if anyone will appreciate this but if it turns out y’all do then I will sure in the future post some more. 

Species list:

Red-Tailed Hawk (turtle back zoo)

Masai Giraffe (turtle back zoo)

Orangutan (Zoo Atlanta)

African Lion (Zoo Atlanta)

Giant Panda (Zoo Atlanta)

Fiji Banded Iguana (Zoo Atlanta)

Caribean Flamingo (Turtle Back Zoo)

Taveta Golden Weaver (Kansas City Zoo)

Gray Wolf (i think arctic subspecies?) (Turtle Back Zoo)

Western Lowland Gorilla (Kansas City Zoo)

[aviangardener]

birds dont actually use nests to sleep well they do but only when they have eggs or chicks nests are for raising babies and thats it some birds will come back to the same nest year after year but unless its breeding season theyre sleeping elsewhere i dont wanna take the time to describe all the different sorts of nests so here are a few examples for yall mostly under the cut so you dont have to scroll so much youre welcome!

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Taveta Golden Weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps), male constructing nest, family Ploceidae, found in Tanzania and Kenya

photograph by Yi Park Soon