queleas

"I've seen starlings in our Midwest and queleas in Africa, but I've never seen anything like this."

The Disunited States of America 2006

I have heard it said that "kwere, kwere" is more than a mocking imitation of foreign languages — it is an attempt to replicate the twittering of queleas, small but extremely destructive birds that travel in flocks of hundreds of thousands.

South Africans Only 2001

I have heard it said that "kwere, kwere" is more than a mocking imitation of foreign languages — it is an attempt to replicate the twittering of queleas, small but extremely destructive birds that travel in flocks of hundreds of thousands.

South Africans Only 2001

One minute the queleas are nowhere in sight; the next they have swept through fields like locusts, devastating the harvest.

South Africans Only 2001

One minute the queleas are nowhere in sight; the next they have swept through fields like locusts, devastating the harvest.

South Africans Only 2001

At sunset each day queleas congregate in patches of tall grasses or trees.

Chapter 23 1996

If a barrier (a sheet of glass or transparent plastic, for example) was placed across the middle of the roost, thousands of queleas could be forced to fly into it each night (at least, for three consecutive nights, after which the birds became more cautious).

Chapter 23 1996

It was difficult to know what effect the queleas would have in the Western Cape and how well established they would become, he added.

Muti 2009

It was difficult to know what effect the queleas would have in the Western Cape and how well established they would become, he added.

unknown title 2009

It was difficult to know what effect the queleas would have in the Western Cape and how well established they would become, he added.

IOL: News 2009