{"id":122134,"date":"2026-09-01T14:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=122134"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:15:33","slug":"sharp-tailed-sandpiper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sharp-tailed-sandpiper\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Tailed Sandpiper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sharp Tailed Sandpiper Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a rare sharp-tailed sandpiper was spotted in Chandu village, Gurgaon.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sharp Tailed Sandpiper<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata ) is a <\/span><b>small wader bird.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Appearance<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a medium-sized <\/span><b>sandpiper with a distinct cap.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Breeding adults<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are <\/span><b>heavily marked with chevrons and spots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the underparts and have a rich chestnut cap and white eye-ring.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nonbreeding adults are duller grayish-brown with a drab brown cap.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found in <\/span><b>freshwater marshes and coastal mudflats, sometimes inland.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Breeding:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It <\/span><b>breeds in northern Siberia,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in an area that extends from the Lena river delta on the eastern Arctic Ocean southeastward to the Kolyma region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>migrates south over East Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to its main non-breeding grounds in <\/span><b>Australia and New Zealand.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It feeds on <\/span><b>seeds, worms, molluscs, crustaceans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and insects after rainfall, and often forages in agricultural pastures and in the shallow-water edges of wetlands.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Pollution, altered sediment flows, and rise in sea levels are major reasons for its population decline.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vulnerable<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/gurgaon\/birders-delight-as-rare-sharp-tailed-sandpiper-spotted-in-gurgaon-after-7-years\/articleshow\/133660726.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp Tailed Sandpiper is a small wader bird. Read more about Sharp Tailed Sandpiper, Habitat, Breeding, Threats, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":122111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9927],"class_list":["post-122134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-sharp-tailed-sandpiper","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122134","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=122134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122196,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122134\/revisions\/122196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}