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I said I would be right back and I'm here. Most times what you think is very irrelevant or small can be of help to you or make you smarter than the next person. On the news this morning I heared what I have never heared before. I went to learn about it online and I decided to share hope you like it this article will bring to your knowledge a few things about the Quelea birds. Quelea birds
Quelea is a genus of small passerine birds that belong to the Weaver family ploceidae, confined to Africa. These are small-sized,sparrow or finch-like gregarious birds, with bills adapted to eating seeds. Kingdom ~~~Animalia Phylum ~~~ Chordata Class~~~ Aves Order ~~~Passeriformes Family ~~~ Ploceidae Genus ~~~ Quelea
Description. 1) The quelea birds bill is conical and chunky, a nutcracker bill allows the quelea to break into the toughest seeds and get at their protein rich kernels. 2) Its wings are short but the quelea can fly a long distance when it has to migrate in search of food. 3) They have long mobile toes with claws that allow the quelea to cling to swaying grass stems as it strips them off their seeds 4) Most of the year the males have a dull brown plumage, but when the time comes to mate, he acquires a dashing black face mask and a red flush on his crown and breast. While the females bill turns from red to yellow-brown at the highest of breeding season.
The Quelea bird is regarded to as the most numerous undomesticated bird in earth, with the total post - breeding population sometimes peaking at an estimated 1.5 been billion individuals. Impact on agriculture. Q.quelea is a major pest to small grain cereal crops in much of the Sahara Africa; the kernels of corn are too big for it. Q.erythrops may cause financial damage to rice Q. cardinalis is not known to raid crops. Note; the Q stands for quelea.š The red bill Quelea is said to be said to be the most numerous bird species specie in the world. I hope you learnt something š Leave a comment, like subscribe and sponsor if you can.š
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We have something that looks like that.. It's called Maya. But I like the one that has red head on your photos. :)
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