In their study, published in the journal Science, the group conducted a two-year study of nest-building by sparrow weavers in the Kalahari Desert.

Each sparrow weaver spends the night in a separate, woven roost and the breeding pair’s eggs are reared in similarly constructed nests. A group of a dozen birds might have 30 to 40 structures ...

She wanted to see how social learning might affect the nest building of white-browed sparrow weavers. These highly social birds live in extended families of two to 14 individuals.

If you spot one nest, you are likely to spot several more, as weaver birds like to nest in groups. In fact, African sparrow weaver birds even build ‘nest apartments’, with 100 to 300 nests ...

White-browed sparrow weavers, sociable brown-and-white birds with a “grass-centric” lifestyle, provided Dr. Tello-Ramos and her colleagues the perfect opportunity to study nest building.

Challenging long-held beliefs that bird nest building is solely influenced by genetics or the environment, researchers report that the white-browed sparrow weavers of the Kalahari Desert, Africa ...

A team of biologists in the U.K. and Canada has found that at least one type of bird has its own distinct nest building style. In their study, published in the journal Science, the group conducted ...

She wanted to see how social learning might affect the nest building of white-browed sparrow weavers. These highly social birds live in extended families of two to 14 individuals.