Long-tailed Widowbird (Euplectes progne) male in the Highveld grasslands of the southern Drakensberg. There are 3 isolated populations which include (1) Kenya, (2) an area extending from Angola to Zambia and (3) in southern Africa where it is locally common in the eastern half of South Africa and in Lesotho. Its diet is mostly seeds and insects. Males mate with up to 5 females during the breeding season. Both males and females have been known to build the nest of fine woven grass lined with flowering grass heads just above damp ground or shallow water. The peak of egg-laying is from November to February when 1-4 eggs are layed then incubated by the female for about 2 weeks. When the chicks leave the nest after about 2 weeks they are still dependent on their mother for food for another 2 weeks.