{"id":18118,"date":"2023-12-13T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T02:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:18:46","slug":"cinereous-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cinereous-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinereous Vulture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Cinereous Vulture<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the\u00a0Eurasian Black Vulture or monk vulture.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the heaviest and largest raptors in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the two largest Old World vultures.<\/li>\n<li>It is an\u00a0altitudinal migrant \u2014 which means it migrates from a higher to a lower altitude.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Habitat:\u00a0This vulture is a bird of hilly, mountainous areas, especially\u00a0favoring dry semi-open habitats such as meadows at high altitudes over much of the range.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: It\u00a0is a Eurasian species. It is mainly found in\u00a0Spain\u00a0and inland\u00a0Portugal,\u00a0South France, central Asia, northern India, northern Manchuria, Mongolia and Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Near threatened<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife Protection Act 1972: Schedule IV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located on the Southern Delhi Ridge of the\u00a0Aravalli hill range on the\u00a0Delhi-Haryana border.<\/li>\n<li>It is also part of the\u00a0Sariska-Delhi Wildlife Corridor, which runs from the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan to Delhi Ridge.<\/li>\n<li>Vegetation: The vegetation falls under the Northern Tropical Thorn Forests type.<\/li>\n<li>Climate: It is mainly influenced by its remote inland position and prevalence of air of continental character, which is characterized by extreme summer heat alternating with great winter cold.<\/li>\n<li>Flora: Consists of Prosopis juliflora as the dominant exotic species and Diospyros montana as the dominant native species in the sanctuary.<\/li>\n<li>Fauna: Golden Jackals, Striped-Hyenas, Indian crested-Porcupines, Civets, Jungle Cats, Snakes, Monitor Lizards, Mongoose etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Aravali Hill?<\/h3>\n<p>The Aravalli Range is one of the oldest mountains of the world which runs in a southwest direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana and Rajasthan, and ending in Gujarat.The highest peak is Guru Shikhar at 1,722 metres (5,650 ft).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/cities\/delhi-news\/rare-vulture-spotted-at-asola-bhatti-sanctuary-101702318906372.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Rare vulture spotted at Asola Bhatti sanctuary<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinereous Vulture is also known as the Eurasian Black Vulture or monk vulture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18118","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\/18118","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=18118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}