{"id":15361,"date":"2023-09-30T04:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T23:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:47:55","slug":"greater-sand-plover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/greater-sand-plover\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater sand-plover"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Greater sand-plover:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is known\u00a0<strong>for long distance migration<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>medium-sized plover<\/strong> with a long hefty bill.<\/li>\n<li>Breeding adults have a dark mask and orangish chest, neck, and forehead; females duller than males.<\/li>\n<li>Non-breeding birds and immatures are sandy brown above and white below, with a white throat and \u201ceyebrows.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, unlike some Lesser Sand-Plovers, Greater never has a black boundary around the throat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It breeds in\u00a0<strong>high-elevation areas,<\/strong> where it favors arid, open habitats, sometimes near water. Winters on coastal mudflats and estuaries.<\/li>\n<li>It breeds during April to May in\u00a0<strong>central Asia<\/strong>, late March to late May\u00a0<strong>in Turkey<\/strong> and upto\u00a0<strong>late June in Armenia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It winters on the shores of\u00a0<strong>Indian and Australian Oceans<\/strong> after the breeding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong> The bird\u2019s diet consists of beetles, worms, crustaceans, molluscs, other insects and their larvae.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> Mudflats and sandy shores.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Behaviour\/Ecology:<\/strong> Associates with other feeding shorebirds, especially Lesser Sand Plover.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Least\u00a0 Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is\u00a0 IUCN?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global organization dedicated to the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It is one of the world&#8217;s most influential and respected organizations in the field of conservation and environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/coimbatores-kurichi-tank-turns-home-to-greater-sand-plover\/article67352873.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Coimbatore\u2019s Kurichi tank turns home to long distance migrant bird Greater sand-plover<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater sand-plover is known for long distance migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15361","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\/15361","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=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}