{"id":20427,"date":"2024-02-13T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T06:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20427"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:45:37","slug":"fire-capped-tit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fire-capped-tit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Capped Tit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Fire Capped Tit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small bird species assigned to the\u00a0family Paridae.<\/li>\n<li>Migration pattern: It is a\u00a0Himalayan bird which flies down south towards Western Ghats and Kerala around Sept, and is back around Feb-end and March.<\/li>\n<li>Habitat:\u00a0Inhabits forest feeding on invertebrates, nectar and pollen, usually high in canopy but will descend to low growth.<\/li>\n<li>It is found in montane broadleaf forest at middle to high elevations, sometimes mixed in with other species.<\/li>\n<li>These birds breed in the Himalayas during summer and have a melodious song.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>A local breeding summer visitor to northern mountains from\u00a0Pakistan east to Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>Winters in foothills and rarely in plains south to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.<\/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>Why early reverse migration?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The winters were not very harsh in central India. So, the bird could have started moving early.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is migration?<\/h3>\n<p>The movement of a person or people from one country, locality, place of residence to settle in another place. Migration is, first and foremost a normal human activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/birds-reverse-migrate-to-city-end-of-winter\/articleshow\/107611648.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Birds reverse-migrate to city, watchers see end of winter<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Capped Tit  is a small bird species assigned to the family Paridae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20427","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\/20427","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=20427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}