{"id":19673,"date":"2024-01-24T04:56:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19673"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:38:23","slug":"agulhas-long-billed-lark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agulhas-long-billed-lark\/","title":{"rendered":"Agulhas long-billed lark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Agulhas long-billed lark<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small\u00a0passerine bird.<\/li>\n<li>It builds nests on the ground mainly in\u00a0Renosterveld fynbos, a\u00a0type of vegetation filled with grasses and wild spring flowers.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0South African endemic species restricted to the Agulhas plains.<\/li>\n<li>These are generally \u201clittle brown birds\u201d that are often difficult to identify.<\/li>\n<li>These larks prefer to\u00a0nest in Renosterveld.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat: It appears to have adapted quite well to its modified habitats, like farmlands, although its distribution is patchy for unknown reasons.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: Its restricted range is centred on the Agulhas arable farmlands, from east of the Hottentots-Holland mountain range to Mossel Bay.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation status\n<ul>\n<li>IUCN: Near-threatened\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Threats: Land use changes or any freak occurrence could be detrimental to the whole species and to other species that depend on this vegetation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a passerine bird?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A passerine or passeriform is a member of the order\u00a0Passeriformes, the largest order of birds, containing more than half of all species.<\/li>\n<li>They are also known as\u00a0perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds.<\/li>\n<li>Passerines are all terrestrial, found on\u00a0all continents except Antarctica.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is endemism?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a term used in biology to talk about the distribution of a taxon limited to a small geographic area and which can therefore be found naturally in this place. In consequence, endemic species are those that live in a limited area, such as a mountain range, lake or island, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/africa\/south-africa-s-agulhas-long-billed-lark-adapting-and-surviving-despite-farming-taking-over-their-nesting-grounds-94049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>South Africa\u2019s Agulhas long-billed lark: adapting and surviving despite farming taking over their nesting grounds<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agulhas long-billed larks  build nests on the ground mainly in Renosterveld fynbos, a type of vegetation filled with grasses and wild spring flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19673","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\/19673","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=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}