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The building of nests for egg laying and rearing of offspring. (Source: AMHER)

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Paxton M 2014. Sharp-tailed Starling nesting in Namibia. Lanioturdus 47 (2) 12-14

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Ledger JA, Hobbs JCA 1999. Raptor use and abuse of powerlines in southern Africa. Journal of Raptor Research 33 (1) 49-52

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Cooper J 1986. Biology of the Bank Cormorant. Part 4: Nest construction and characteristics. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 57 (3) 170 - 179

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1986.9633646#.VSZ_2Wf9kpE

White FN, Bartholomew GA, Howell TR 1975. The thermal significance of the nest of the sociable weaver Philetairus socius: Winter observations. Ibis 117 (2) 171-179

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1975.tb04205.x/abstract

Bamford AJ, Monadjem A, Anderson MD, Anthony A, Borello WD, Bridgeford M, Bridgeford P, Hancock P, Howells B, Wakelin J, Hardy ICW 2009. Trade-offs between specificity and regional generality in habitat association models: a case study of two species of African vulture. Journal of Applied Ecology 46 (4) 852-860

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01669.x/abstract

Collias EC, Collias NE 1978. Nest building and nesting behaviour of the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius. Ibis 120 (1) 1 - 15

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1978.tb04994.x/abstract

Clancey PA 1950. The sociable Weaver Philetairus socius (Latham) nesting on telephone poles. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 21 (1) 34

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1950.9638949#.VRJqbWc5ApE

Chittenden HN 1977. Nesting habits of the Chestnutbacked Finchlark. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 48 (3-4) 112

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1977.9634088#.VRurAGf9kpE

Buttiker W 1960. Artificial nesting devices in southern Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 31 (2) 39 - 48

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1960.9632651#.VRLLMGc5ApE

Burger J, Gochfeld M 1981. Nest orientation in two species of weaver. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 52 (1) 54 - 56

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1981.9633583#.VSvSiGf9kpE

Broekhuysen M, Broekhuysen G 1974. Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus) builds a nest on a telephone pole. Bokmakierie 26 36

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Braine JWS, Braine SG 1970. Two francolin species laying in one nest. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 41 (4) 263

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1970.9634379#.VRluE2f9kpE

Borsutzky P 1964. European Shoveller on the Okavango River. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 35 (2) 121

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1964.9633495#.VRPYEGc5ApE

Borsutzky P 1963. Range of Stonechat. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 34 (4) 251

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1963.9633480#.VRPUzmc5ApE

Bertram BCR 1979. Ostriches recognize their own eggs and discard others. Nature 279 233 - 234

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/22702707_Ostriches_recognize_their_own_eggs_and_discard_others

Berry HH 1977. Seasonal fidelity of Cape Cormorants to nesting area. Cormorant 2 5 - 6

Selman R, Perrin M, Hunter M 2004. Characteristics of and competition for nest sites by the Rüppell's Parrot, Poicephalus ruepelli. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 75 (3) 89-94

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/00306520409485419

Heinrich D 2008. Mit dem Regen kam die Brutzeit.

Website link:http://www.az.com.na/tourismus/natur-und-umwelt/mit-dem-regen-kam-die-brutzeit.64758.php

Batchelor AL 1980. Attempted nest predation by immature Gabar Goshawk. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 51 (3) 190

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1980.9633560#.VSvVl2f9kpE

Bartholomew GA, White FN, Howell TR 1976. The thermal significance of the nest of the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius: Summer observations. Ibis 118 (3) 402 - 411

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1976.tb02027.x/abstract

Simmons R, Smith PC 1985. Do Northern Harriers (Circus cyaneus) choose nest sites adaptively?. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63 (3) 494-498

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Simmons R 1986. Food Provisioning, Nestling Growth and Experimental Manipulation of Brood Size in the African Redbreasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris. Ornis Scandinavica 17 (1) 31-40

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3676750?uid=4&sid=21100861992911

Simmons R, Barnard P, Smith PC 1987. Reproductive Behaviour of Circus cyaneus in North America and Europe: A Comparison. Ornis Scandinavica 18 (1) 33-41

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27669756?uid=4&sid=21100861900201

Barnard P, MacWhirter B, Simmons R, Hansen GL, Smith PC 1987. Timing of breeding and the seasonal importance of passerine prey to northern harriers (Circus cyaneus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 65 (8) 1942-1946

Website link:http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z87-295

Simmons RE 1990. Copulation patterns of African marsh harriers: Evaluating the paternity assurance hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 40 (6) 1151–1157

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347205801812

Allan D 1988. Raptors nesting on transmission pylons. African Wildlife 42 (6) 325 - 327

Website link:http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/docs/semi1988.html

Rösner S, Giesselmann UC, Meyer J, Schwager M, Wiegand T, Lück-Vogel M, Brandl R 2010. Coloniality of birds in the Kalahari - spatial distribution of trees and nests of the Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius). Biodiversity in southern Africa 2 179-183

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Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4830

Crawford RJM, Cochrane KL 1990. Onset of breeding by Cape Gannets Morus capensis influenced by availability of nesting material. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 61 (3-4) 147-149

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1990.9634166#.VSVD7mf9kpE

Watson AC 1930. The Guano Islands of Southwestern Africa. Geographical Review 20 (4) 631 - 641

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/209016

Siegfried WR 1977. The packing of Jackass Penguin nests. South African Journal of Science 73 186

Website link:http://www.sajs.co.za/archive

Shaughnessy PD, Shaughnessy GL 1976. Kelp Gulls nesting at Square Point, South West Africa. Cormorant 1 3

Holmes M 1981. Sociable Weavers - Nature's engineers. African Wildlife 35 (2) 15 - 17

Zur Strassen WH 1967. A Penduline Tit's nest. African Wildlife 21 301 - 303

Winterbottom JM 1975. Notes on the South African species of Corvus. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 46 (3) 236 - 250

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1975.9639523#.VLTtIGctApE

Winterbottom JM, Underhill GD 1969. Eighth report on the South African Ornithological Society nest record card scheme. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 40 (1) 9 - 12

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1969.9634319#.VRlp4Wf9kpE

Winterbottom JM, Underhill GD 1967. Sixth report on the South African Ornithological Society nest record card scheme. Ostrich 38 13 - 16

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1967.9639470#.VRlUcWf9kpE

Winterbottom JM 1965. Fifth report on the nest record scheme. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 36 (3) 117 - 120

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1965.9633871#.VRUQnGc5ApE

Winterbottom JM 1964. Report on the nest record card scheme. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 35 (1) 42 - 44

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1964.9633832#.VRPdfWc5ApE

Vernon CJ 1971. Nest of Mirafra cheniana. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 42 (4) 298 - 299

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1971.9634418#.VRpEvWf9kpE

van der Merwe G 1966. Sociable Weaver. Bokmakierie 18 57 - 58

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Urban EK 1984. Time of egg-laying and number of nesting Great White Pelicans at Lake Shala Shala, Ethiopia, and elsewhere in Africa. Proceedings of the 5th Pan-African Ornithological Congress

Website link:https://www.birdlife.org.za/about-us/history

Sauer EGF, Rocher CJV 1967. Flamingo nests and eggs on Etosha Pan, South West Africa. Bokmakierie 19 10 - 11

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Rudebeck G 1956. Aves II. III. Studies on the Sociable Weaver (Philetairus socius), its distribution and nesting habits. South African animal life: results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950 - 1951 437-459

Website link:https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/546063

Riekert B, Clinning C 1985. The use of artificial nest boxes by birds in the Daan Viljoen Game Park. Bokmakierie 37 84 - 86

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Plowes DCH 1943. Social Weaver nests at Bloemhof. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 14 (2) 109 - 111

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1943.9633992#.VRF-Bmc5ApE

Nöller R, Jensen RAC 1976. Postcript Peter's parasitized prinia. Bokmakierie 28 99 - 100

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Newby C 1943. Sociable Weaver nest in Kokerboom. Ostrich 14 111

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1943.9633992#.VRF592c5ApE

Milstein P le S 1974. Nest siting in Kalahari scrubrobin. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 45 (1) 32

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1974.9639173#.VRqzUmf9kpE

Martin J 1972. The nest of the Dusky Lark. Bokmakierie 24 3

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Maclean GL 1973. The Sociable Weaver. Part 2. Nest architecture and social organisation. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 44 (3-4) 191 - 218

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1973.9639159#.VRpZImf9kpE