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Quelea quelea lathamii |
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Quelea quelea lathami |
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Travailleur à bec rouge |
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Red-billed Quelea |
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| Nseba (Kibemba) ; Luseba (Kiluba); luvila, nyimbidi (Tshiluba) | |
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Differs from its cousin Q. erythrops by its pinkish face and its black facial mask. Bill is red. In non-breeding plumage they are very similar. |
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Quite common in Katanga, it can be seen in flocks of hundreds of individuals. In Eastern African countries, tens of thousands of individuals can be seen together. |
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Seeds. |
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Nest is a ball of grass with a lateral entrance. It is hung on many materials. Nidification takes place during the rainy season. |
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Devastate crops and are caught with a nest to be sold in town for human consumption. |
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Eaten with delight by cities populations. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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