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