{"id":18651,"date":"2023-12-27T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18651"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:44:34","slug":"black-necked-grebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/black-necked-grebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-necked Grebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Black-necked Grebe<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The black-necked grebe, or\u00a0eared grebe, is a member of the grebe family of\u00a0water birds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name:\u00a0<i>Podiceps nigricollis<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Distribution: It has a widespread breeding area, with migratory populations covering an extensive range of\u00a0Eurasia and North America, while a resident population is also found in\u00a0subtropical Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It usually measures between 28 and 34 centimetres in length and weighs 265 to 450 grams.<\/li>\n<li>It has a wingspan range of 20.5-21.6 in (52-55 cm).<\/li>\n<li>Its\u00a0breeding plumage\u00a0features a distinctive\u00a0ochre-coloured plumage that extends behind its eye and over its ear coverts.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0rest of the upper parts, including the head, neck, and breast,\u00a0are coloured black to blackish brown.<\/li>\n<li>When in its\u00a0non-breeding plumage, this bird has greyish-black upper parts.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0legs are a dark greenish grey. The\u00a0sexes are similar.<\/li>\n<li>It uses\u00a0multiple foraging techniques. Insects, which make up the majority of this bird&#8217;s diet, are caught either on the surface of the water or when they are in flight.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Although it generally avoids flight, the black-necked grebe\u00a0travels as far as 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) during migration.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Status:\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Hokersar Wetland<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Known as the \u2018Queen Wetland of Kashmir\u2019, Hokersar (also known as Hokera) is a designated\u00a0Ramsar site is located in\u00a0Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.<\/li>\n<li>It is spread over an area of 13.75 sq. km (1375 ha) in the northwest\u00a0Himalayan Biogeographic province of Kashmir, in the\u00a0backyard the snow draped\u00a0Pir Panjal range with an altitude of 1584 m.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0natural perennial wetland contiguous to the Jhelum basin.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0gets water from the Doodhganga River (Tributary of Jhelum)<\/li>\n<li>It is the only site with remaining reed beds of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0abode of 68 waterfowl species like Large Egret, Great Crested Grebe, Little Cormorant, Common Shelduck, Tufted Duck and endangered White-eyed Pochard, coming from Siberia, China, Central Asia, and Northern Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which is a Ramsar site?<\/h3>\n<p>A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.Ramsar convention defines wetlands as \u201careas of marsh, fen, peat land or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six meters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/risingkashmir.com\/black-necked-grebe-sighted-at-hokersar-wetland-for-the-first-time-5f40384b-21bd-45d0-912f-ce5a07496bae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Black-necked Grebe sighted at Hokersar wetland for the first time<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The black-necked grebe, or eared grebe, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18651","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\/18651","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=18651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}