A South African photographer has captured a series of stunning photographs featuring the gargantuan nests of social weaver birds hanging from utility poles. Dillon Marsh, from Cape Town, spent three ...

Dillon Marsh took to the Kalahari desert to document the oversized avian homes. These massive, amorphous avian homes can support hundreds of birds at a time in their complex interior chambers and ...

Online advertisements promised answers for what appeared to be a large nest or other object hanging on top of a telephone pole or power lines. A picture of a sociable weaver birds' nest on a telephone ...

Often, nature and wildlife give us clues on how we can live in harmony with others. A bird species known as sociable weavers are known to create massive, visually appealing nests in the Kalahari ...

Weaver bird name for the Ploceidae, a family of Old World seed-eating birds closely resembling finches. The weavers are named for the highly complex woven nests built by many species, though others ...

Weaver bird name for the Ploceidae, a family of Old World seed-eating birds closely resembling finches. The weavers are named for the highly complex woven nests built by many species, though others ...

You'd have to be pretty dialled in to twig what these structures are. The alien shapes stuck to phone-line poles and making them look like lone trees in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert are the biggest ...

That heap of hay in a tree is not a typical animal commune. Huge group nests of sociable weaver birds across southern Africa are about as close as nature gets to building condos. Ant nests, beaver ...

From afar, the acacia trees look like they have been decorated with grass pom-poms. The birds have been busy, building shelters of straw and grass. Up close the real shape of the "pom-poms" becomes ...

Neighboring groups of birds within the same species can create very different-looking nests — showing that their nest-building choices aren't solely controlled by instinct and the environment. Instead ...

A scrape nest on the beach made by a pair of American oystercatchers. Just like the birds that make them, bird nests come in many different forms. Depending on the size, habitat, and lifestyle of ...