Red-Billed Quelea & Four-Striped Grass Mouse Feeding Together

Robertson & McGregor, Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICA

Photographed eating together, some red-billed quelea birds and a four-striped grass mouse. Learn more about the two species here.

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Red-Billed Quelea Bird

The red-billed quelea is a small, brown bird that is a part of the songbird family. Primarily found in the grasslands, savanna and some farmland areas of Africa.

Quelea birds are sometimes called the ‘locust birds’, or the ‘feathered locusts’. This is because they flock in large groups of nearly two million pairs across one hundred and twenty five acres (fifty hectares).

As their flocks are extremely large, they often devastated grain crops while feeding or roosting.

During the mating season, the male red-billed quelea has a predominantly black face, with some red or pink colouring in the foreparts.

During this time the males build spherical nests for their mates in bushes and trees. Hundreds, if not thousands, of nests can be seen during this time of the year.

Every pair breeds around two or three young. In the time span of one year, the babies will become grown, leaving their parents’ nests and wandering before they find a mate of their own during the next mating season.

Four-Striped Grass Mouse

Commonly known by its appearance, the four-striped grass mouse is characterised by the four distinct dark lines running down the length of its back. The rest of their fur varies in colour from a greyish-white, to a darker brown.

They are found across Southern Africa, with smaller groups in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Botswana, while in Namibia and South Africa they are a common occurrence.

Their tolerance for climates and weather is quite widespread, as they appear in both high-rainfall and desert areas. However, as their name suggests, they do require grass to be present.

The four-striped grass mouse feeds off insects, plants, and seeds, depending on the season. Though they consistently consume insects, the largest part of their diet consists of green plant material. Seeds are usually consumed during summer.

The females of the species tend to become territorial during the mating season, and they stay closer to home. Their gestation period lasts only twenty five days, and litters of up to six are born.

The characteristic stripes are seen on the skin of the young before their fur begins to grow., and they begin to wander from the nest, fourteen days after birth.

Showcased above is a photograph of some Red-Billed Quelea birds and a Four-Striped Grass Mouse feeding together. This scene was photographed by R. Nagda, around the Robertson and McGregor areas, in the Western Cape of South Africa.

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Red-Billed Quelea & Four-Striped Grass Mouse Feeding Together

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