Red-billed quelea
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The Red-billed quelea is a small, highly gregarious African weaver bird famed for forming enormous flocks that can devastate grain crops.
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
ⓘ
passerine ⓘ weaver ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Africa’s most numerous wild bird
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red-billed weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| billColor | red ⓘ |
| binomialName | Quelea quelea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyLength | about 11–12 cm ⓘ |
| bodyMass | about 12–20 g ⓘ |
| breedingSystem | colonial nester ⓘ |
| breedingTriggeredBy | onset of rains ⓘ |
| class | Aves ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 2–4 eggs ⓘ |
| considered | serious agricultural pest ⓘ |
| describedBy | Carl Linnaeus ⓘ |
| diet |
grain crops
ⓘ
grass seeds ⓘ |
| family | Ploceidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| femalePlumage | streaked brownish ⓘ |
| forms |
large breeding colonies
ⓘ
massive roosts ⓘ |
| genus | Quelea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
cultivated fields
ⓘ
grassland ⓘ savanna ⓘ thornbush ⓘ |
| impactOnHumans | reduces cereal yields ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| maleBreedingPlumage |
black facial mask
ⓘ
red bill ⓘ variable head and breast coloration ⓘ |
| migration | nomadic movements ⓘ |
| movementPattern | rainfall-dependent movements ⓘ |
| nativeTo |
East Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sahel region NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nestSite |
bushes
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trees ⓘ |
| nestType | woven grass nest ⓘ |
| notableFor |
crop damage
ⓘ
forming enormous flocks ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| populationSize | hundreds of millions to billions of individuals ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | present ⓘ |
| socialBehavior | highly gregarious ⓘ |
| targetOf | control programs ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| yearDescribed | 1758 ⓘ |
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