{"id":20176,"date":"2026-08-13T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20176"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:00:19","slug":"black-necked-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/black-necked-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-Necked Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Black-Necked Crane Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has sterilised over 2,950 Free Ranging Dogs (FRD) to save Black-necked Cranes (Grus nigricollis) in Ladakh, whose chicks and nests were being attacked in alpine wetlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Black-Necked Crane<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is classed as a medium-sized member of the <\/span><b>crane family.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Other Names:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is locally known as <\/span><b>\u201ccha thung-thung<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d in Ladakh and \u201c<\/span><b>thungdung karma<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d in <\/span><b>Arunachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Appearance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has a largely <\/span><b>whitish-grey body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contrasted by a <\/span><b>jet-black head<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and upper neck, splashes of red around the eye, and long, elegant legs built for wading through alpine bogs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> High altitude marshes and lakes of <\/span><b>Tibetan Plateau<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Gansu), Sichuan (China), and eastern Ladakh (India).<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A small wintering population is also found in <\/span><b>Sangti and Zimithang valleys of Arunachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These are <\/span><b>carnivores and herbivores<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They feed on the tubers of sedges, plant roots, earthworms, insects and other invertebrates, frogs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Breeding:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The cranes breed at <\/span><b>elevations between 2,600 and 4,900 metres<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, choosing gently sloping wetlands where they build simple nests of grasses and sedges.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main breeding sites include the <\/span><b>Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, especially the wetlands of <\/span><b>Hanle, Tso Kar, Nyoma<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and nearby marshes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cultural Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They hold a special place in <\/span><b>Ladakh\u2019s Buddhist culture.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are regarded as sacred birds and symbols of <\/span><b>peace, purity and good fortune.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Threats: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasing human use of areas surrounding wetlands, expansion of linear infrastructure, growing tourism activities, habitat degradation, and the impacts of climate change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Conservation Status of Black-Necked Crane<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>CITES:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Appendices I<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wildlife-protection-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972<\/a>:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule I<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/bnhs-sterilises-over-2950-dogs-to-save-black-necked-cranes-and-wildlife-in-ladakh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-necked Crane is classed as a medium-sized member of the crane family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":118961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5639,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-20176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-black-necked-crane","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176","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=20176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118949,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20176\/revisions\/118949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}