Baya weaver

Size: Sparrow

Field Characters: Female, and male in non-breeding plumage, rather like the hen House Sparrow: daek-streaked fulvous brown above, plain whitish fulvous below. Stout conical bill; short square-cut tail. Breeding male has bright yellow crown and upper parts dark brown streaked with yellow. Yellow breast, cream buff on underparts. Flocks, about open cultivation.

Distribution: Throughout the Indian Union, Bangaldesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar. Resident and locally migratory. Three races on size and details of coloration.

Habits: Flocks, sometimes considerable size, glean paddy and other grain in harvested fields. Occasionaly damages ripening crops. Roosts in enormous numbers in reed-bed bordering tanks, etc. Its seasonal local movements are largely governed by paddy and cereal cultivation which provide both nesting material and food. Also eats insects.

Call: A sparrow-like 'chit-chit-chit'. In breeding season males follow these up by a long-drawn joyous 'chee-ee' uttered in chores, accompanied by flapping of wings in unison while weaving their nests in a colony.

Nesting: Season - May to September, coincident with the SW monsoon and paddy cultivation. Nest - a swinging retort-shaped structure with long vertical entrance tube, compactly woven out of strips of paddy leaf and rough-edged grasses, suspended in clusters from twigs usually over water. Blobs of mud, collected when wet, are stuck inside the dome near the egg-chamber. Eggs - 2 or 4, pure white. Male alone builds; female alone incubates. Each male has several nests and females at the same time.

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Tags:

• Baya
• weaver
• Thunnaran
• Thookkanam
• kuruvi
• Son-chiri
• Thonga-nathan
• Wadu
• kurulla

[Jawa2lak]

Some Baya weaver birds bring the wet clay pieces and stick on the inner side of the nest rooms. Then catch the Fireflies and stick them in the wet clay pieces for light during night. Brillliant birds.

[masanthosh]

Yes i too have heard the same..but dont know how far it's true..!!

[leesbirdblog]

Amazing!

[poltergiest11]

aw thats so beautifully intelligent! a little tunnel..baaaw!

[Jawa2lak]

It might be true. It may occurs where moist paddy field surrounded with bushes and trees.Wet clay is available in paddy field and Fire flies available in the bushes and trees. We may see it in village sides.

[daliajoh]

good videos