{"id":15177,"date":"2023-09-25T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T02:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:32:44","slug":"indian-spot-billed-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-spot-billed-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-Spot Billed Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indian-Spot Billed Duck:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>large dabbling duck<\/strong> that is a\u00a0<strong>non-migratory breeding duck<\/strong> throughout freshwater\u00a0<strong>wetlands in the Indian subcontinent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>name is derived from the red spot at the base of the bill<\/strong> that is\u00a0<strong>found in the mainland Indian population.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name:\u00a0<\/strong><i><strong>Anas poecilorhyncha<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution and Habitat<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>resident throughout Pakistan and India in freshwater wetlands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong>inhabit both inland and coastal wetlands\u00a0<\/strong>such as ponds, lakes, pools, streams, creeks, estuaries, tidal flats and marshes.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<strong>tend to avoid very large patches of open water and prefer medium-sized wetlands with vegetation cover.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a\u00a0<strong>scaly patterned body<\/strong> with a\u00a0<strong>green speculum<\/strong> and a\u00a0<strong>band of white tertials.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>measures 55\u201363 cm in length<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>83\u201395 cm across the wings<\/strong>, with a\u00a0<strong>body mass of 790\u20131,500 g<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Males are larger than females<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These are\u00a0<strong>mainly grey ducks with a paler head and<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>neck<\/strong> and a\u00a0<strong>black bill tipped bright yellow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>wings are whitish with black flight feathers below<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>from above<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>show a white-bordered green.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The legs and feet are bright orange to coral red<\/strong>. Juveniles are browner and duller than adults.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feeding Habits:\u00a0<\/strong>They mostly\u00a0<strong>feed on grasses and other vegetations<\/strong>. Sometimes they may feed on insects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Least Concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are estuaries?<\/h3>\n<p>Estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water\u2014a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/rare-leucistic-indian-spot-billed-duck-spotted-in-waterbody-near-tiruppur\/article67326818.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Rare leucistic Indian spot-billed duck spotted in water body near Tiruppur<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-Spot Billed Duck is a large dabbling duck that is a non-migratory breeding duck throughout freshwater wetlands in the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15177","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\/15177","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=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}