{"id":2724,"date":"2010-09-24T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:14","slug":"a-nest-for-a-few-hundred-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/a-nest-for-a-few-hundred-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociable weavers build nests that can hold up to 400 birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably haven\u2019t heard of the sociable weaver <em>(Philetairus socius), <\/em>but they are well<em> <\/em>known in their home, the Kalahari region of Africa, because their nests are kinda hard to miss. These sociable weavers know how to think big when it comes to building, their nests can hold up to 400 other sociable weavers!\u00a0 Take a look at this massive bird mansion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11098\" title=\"sociable weaver bird nest\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest.jpeg\" alt=\"sociable weaver bird nest\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-80x60.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-160x120.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-265x198.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-696x522.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-1392x1044.jpeg 1392w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-1068x801.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-560x420.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/africa_sociable_weaver_nest-1120x840.jpeg 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the sociable weavers&#8217; nests, or maybe bird mansion is more appropriate! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[62,117,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-2724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-birds","11":"tag-largest","12":"tag-nest"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}