{"id":19874,"date":"2024-01-30T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T06:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19874"},"modified":"2025-04-05T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:01:00","slug":"laughing-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/laughing-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Laughing gull:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The bird is known for its <strong>unique laughter-like calls<\/strong> which resemble human laughter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> These are a coastal species and are only occasionally seen very far inland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> These bird are mainly found on the <strong>Atlantic coast of North America<\/strong>, the <strong>Caribbean, and northern South America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong> They are opportunistic carnivores and scavengers. They eat mainly fish, shellfish, crabs, mollusks, insects, bird eggs, and young birds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o These are medium-sized gulls with fairly long wings and long legs that impart a graceful look when they are flying or walking. They have stout, fairly long bills.<\/p>\n<p>o They take 2-3 years to gain adult plumage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o <strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Least Concern<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is an estuary?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An estuary is an area where <strong>a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When freshwater and seawater combine, the water becomes brackish, or slightly salty.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Types of Estuaries<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o <strong>Coastal plain estuaries:<\/strong> These are created when sea levels rise and fill in an existing river valley.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Tectonic estuaries:<\/strong> It is formed due to the shifting together and rifting apart of the Earth&#8217;s crust.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Bar-built estuaries:<\/strong> When a lagoon or bay is protected from the ocean by a sandbar or barrier island, it is called a bar-built estuary.<\/p>\n<p>o <strong>Fjord estuaries:<\/strong>These are a type of estuary <strong>created by glaciers<\/strong>. Fjord estuaries occur when glaciers carve out a deep, steep valley.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is a lagoon?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a shallow body of water protected from a larger body of water (usually the ocean) by sandbars, barrier islands, or coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/in-a-first-in-the-country-laughing-gull-from-north-america-spotted-at-chittari-estuary-in-kasaragod\/article67786315.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a first in the country, laughing gull from North America spotted at Chittari estuary in Kasaragod<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laughing gull  is known for its unique laughter-like calls which resemble human laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19874","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\/19874","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=19874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}