{"id":121718,"date":"2026-08-30T13:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=121718"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:26:20","slug":"oriental-darter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/oriental-darter\/","title":{"rendered":"Oriental Darter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Oriental Darter Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, it was seen that Oriental Darters (Anhinga melanogaster) are getting affected by garbage dumping in Bengaluru\u2019s lake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Oriental Darter<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known as the <\/span><b>snakebird or Indian darter.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Appearance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a <\/span><b>tropical water bird<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a long, slender neck and a sharp, spear-like beak that it uses to impale fish.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a very long, slender, snakelike neck and a long, pointed bill.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its neck has <\/span><b>strongly developed muscles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about a kink in the neck at the 8th and 9th vertebrae that allows it to be flexed and darted forward with rapid force to stab fish underwater.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a water bird of <\/span><b>tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found mainly in <\/span><b>freshwater lakes and streams.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They usually forage singly, with the <\/span><b>entire body submerged<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It darts its neck to impale fish and then brings them out of water.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span><b> an omnivorous species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/iucn-red-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">IUCN Red List<\/a>:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/bangalore\/garbage-dumping-in-bengalurus-lakes-turns-fatal-for-indian-darters\/article71403504.ece\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oriental Darter, also called the snakebird or Indian darter, is a tropical water bird known for its long neck and sharp beak. Read more about Oriental Darter, Appearance, Distribution, Habitat, News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":121763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9881,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-121718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-oriental-darter","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121762,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121718\/revisions\/121762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}