{"id":16530,"date":"2023-10-31T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T06:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16530"},"modified":"2025-04-04T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:33:23","slug":"crab-plover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/crab-plover\/","title":{"rendered":"Crab-plover"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Crab-plover<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a long-legged, black and white bird of Indian Ocean coasts, related to plovers and allied species of shorebirds.<\/li>\n<li>This is the only shore bird that lays white eggs and\u00a0chicks remain inside the burrows until the fledging stage.<\/li>\n<li>The chicks are semi-nidifugous, unlike chicks of other shorebirds that leave the nests shortly after hatching.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution:\n<ul>\n<li>They are residents on the coasts and islands of the\u00a0Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>They breed around the\u00a0Arabian Sea\u00a0of Pakistan, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, Red Sea,Somalia the Andaman Islands and Sri Lanka in the east and Tanzania and Madagascar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Habitat\n<ul>\n<li>These birds inhabit\u00a0sandy coastlines, mudflats, estuaries, lagoons, exposed coral reefs, and rocky shorelines.<\/li>\n<li>During the breeding season, they can also be found in sand dunes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Least Concern<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of\u00a0African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key points about Point Calimere sanctuary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in the year of 1967 and is situated in the state of\u00a0Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>It houses the famous bird sanctuary of\u00a0Vedaranyam and the Talaignayar forests.<\/li>\n<li>It is flanked by the Bay of Bengal in the east, and\u00a0Palk Strait in the south.<\/li>\n<li>It primarily focuses on the protection and conservation of the black antelopes, an endangered and endemic species that are found in this region.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is designated as a\u00a0Ramsar site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Lagoons?<\/h3>\n<p>Lagoons are shallow bodies of water that are usually separated from the open ocean or a larger body of water by a barrier, such as a sandbar, barrier island, or coral reef. They can also be found along the coastlines of lakes and rivers. Lagoons come in a variety of types and serve important ecological and environmental roles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/tamil-nadus-great-vedaranyam-swamp-turns-breeding-ground-for-burrow-nesting-shorebird-crab-plover\/article67476551.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">For the first time, breeding nests of crab-plovers spotted at Great Vedaranyam Swamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crab-plover is a long-legged, black and white bird of Indian Ocean coasts, related to plovers and allied species of shorebirds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16530","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\/16530","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=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}