{"id":13098,"date":"2024-07-17T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:49:52","slug":"what-is-jersons-babbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-jersons-babbler\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Jerson\u2019s Babbler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Jerdon\u2019s Courser:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>nocturnal cursorial<\/strong> (adapted for walking and running) <strong>bird endemic to the Eastern Ghats<\/strong> of India.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: Rhinoptilus bitorquatus<\/li>\n<li>It was considered to be extinct from the beginning of the 20th century until its rediscovery in 1986.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: It inhabits <strong>open patches within scrub-forests<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: It is found only in <strong>Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a delicate <strong>lapwing-like bird<\/strong> with a <strong>large eye<\/strong> and a <strong>short, bicolored bill.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>upper plumage is grey-brown<\/strong>, chin and throat are whitish, fore-neck is rufous and separated from its <strong>brown breast<\/strong> by a white band.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A second white band runs across the lower portion of its breast (hence it was earlier called a double-banded courser).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>belly is whitish<\/strong>, while its <strong>tail is black-and-white<\/strong> (visible in flight). The legs are pale yellow.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The call<\/strong> is a <strong>short series of two-noted whistles \u201ctuick-tuoo.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>insectivorous<\/strong>, hunting invertebrates by sight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is IUCN?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Union for Conservation of Nature is a global organization composed of governments, NGOs, scientists, and experts dedicated to conserving nature and promoting sustainability. Its primary role involves assessing the conservation status of species, providing data and analysis on the state of biodiversity worldwide, and offering guidance and frameworks for conservation efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/visakhapatnam\/critically-endangered-jerdons-courser-not-seen-in-a-decade\/articleshow\/111739906.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Critically endangered Jerdon\u2019s courser not spotted in a decade<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerdon\u2019s Courser is a nocturnal cursorial (adapted for walking and running) bird endemic to the Eastern Ghats of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13098","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\/13098","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=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}