{"id":12491,"date":"2023-06-26T01:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:04:01","slug":"what-are-pelagic-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-pelagic-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Pelagic Birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pelagic Birds:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are <strong>seabirds that live on open seas and oceans rather than inland <\/strong>or around more restricted waters such as lakes and rivers.<\/li>\n<li>They can be <strong>found thousands of miles offshore<\/strong> but can <strong>get blown onto land during high winds a<\/strong>nd storms.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>only other time they come inland is to breed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The most familiar <strong>types of pelagic birds include albatrosses, frigatebirds, fulmars<\/strong>, petrels, shearwaters, and tropicbirds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Features<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>They <strong>feed on planktonic crustaceans, squid<\/strong> and hunt fish far from the land.<\/li>\n<li>Generally, they have <strong>dense, waterproof feathers<\/strong> and <strong>layers of fat to keep them warm.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>exceptionally long and thin wings<\/strong> that allow them <strong>to fly effortlessly for long periods <\/strong>without rest.<\/li>\n<li>Many pelagic birds <strong>have special salt glands<\/strong>. This allows them to drink seawater and <strong>discard extra salt <\/strong>accidentally ingested with their oceanic prey.<\/li>\n<li>Some <strong>have webbed or partially webbed feet for swimming<\/strong>, plucking fish from the shallows, or executing precise, plunging dives.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In general, <strong>seabirds live longer than other wild birds<\/strong>; most have an average lifespan of 50 years.<\/li>\n<li>Almost all seabirds <strong>live<\/strong> <strong>in colonies, migrate annually, and mate for life.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q)\u00a0What is meant by Pelagic?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Anything pelagic has something to do with the ocean, especially the open area far from the shore. Pelagic birds and fish \u2014 like tuna, jellyfish, and the Atlantic puffin \u2014 live in the open ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/others\/birders-catch-rare-glimpse-of-seabirds-in-onshore-regions-of-gujarat-101687698679772.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Birders catch rare glimpse of seabirds in onshore regions of Gujarat<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelagic Birds are seabirds that live on open seas and oceans rather than inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}