WEAVERBIRD Definition & Meaning

weaverbird

[wee-ver-burd]

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noun

any of numerous African and Asian finchlike birds of the family Ploceidae, noted for their elaborately woven nests and colonial habits.

weaverbird

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noun

any small Old World passerine songbird of the chiefly African family Ploceidae, having a short thick bill and a dull plumage and building covered nests: includes the house sparrow and whydahs
Also called: weaver finch.��any similar bird of the family Estrilidae, of warm regions of the Old World: includes the waxbills, grassfinches, and Java sparrow

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of weaverbird¹

First recorded in 1820–30; weaver + bird

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A weaverbird, yellow as police tape, flitted about, building a nest.

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The bird may have been a weaverbird—no one knows —and it may have died of a Level 4 virus—no one knows.

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Banga suddenly hurled a rock and struck a weaverbird just as it perched on its nest.

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So, even before moving my books into my new PhD office, I was on a plane to Botswana to collect data on the nest building behaviour of the Southern masked weaverbird.

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