Cape Weaver

Cape Weaver

Ploceus capensis

Birdstrong against fish, reptiles

Common

Swoop

While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).

40

22

38

Ploceus capensis

Photo: © Lifa Nkosi (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

• Fish
• Reptiles

Weak against

• Mammals
• Arachnids

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

The Cape weaver (Ploceus capensis) is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae, found in southern Africa.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Cape weaver, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

1. LC
2. NT
3. VU
4. EN
5. CR
6. EX

Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.

Observations

7,909 on iNaturalist

Adult mass

44 g

Diet

Herbivore

What it eats (GloBI)

• African boxthorn
• Cape Fig
• Common lantana
• Red beech
• Allophylus africanus
• Antidesma venosum
• and 30 more

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Where its stats come from100 points, the Common budget

Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

• HP 40
• ATK 22
• DEF 38

How they’re shared out:

Type

Herbivorous bird: HP 45, ATK 19 and DEF 36 out of 100 to start.

Popularity

7,909 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.

Size

44 g: small animals are hard to catch, extra DEF.

Variation

A fixed variation, unique to the species, of up to 5% on each stat.