Red-billed Quelea
Quelea quelea Rooibekkwelea Blutschnabelweber

Red-billed Quelea
© Bob Hobbes

Breeding male

© Chris Krog

© Anja Denker

Red-billed Quelea
© Bob Hobbes

© John Murray

This is widely touted as the most abundant wild bird species on the planet with varying population estimates putting this species across its entire sub-Saharan range at somewhere between 3 and 10 billion birds... whatever the actual numbers, they are certainly not uncommon
Zimanga Private Game Reserve
December 2015
© Trevor Hardaker