{"id":23787,"date":"2024-05-30T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23787"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:26:34","slug":"eurasian-whimbrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/eurasian-whimbrel\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Eurasian Whimbrel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Eurasian Whimbrel:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>wading bir<\/strong>d in the large family Scolopacidae.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: <i>Numenius phaeopus<\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They have an extensive range that spans across five continents: <strong>North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>breed in the subarctic regions<\/strong> of Siberia and Alaska during the summer months before <strong>migrating south to wintering grounds<\/strong> in southern <strong>USA, Central America, South America<\/strong>, Africa, and <strong>South Asia,<\/strong> including Nepal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: Winters mainly along the <strong>coastline, coastal wetlands<\/strong>, <strong>mangroves<\/strong>, <strong>marshes,<\/strong> and larger rivers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>A fairly <strong>large greyish-brown bird<\/strong> with a <strong>long, decurved bill<\/strong> with a kink.<\/li>\n<li>It has a distinct head pattern with dark eye-stripes and crown-sides.<\/li>\n<li>It is mottled dark brown above, pale below, with much brown streaking on the throat and breast.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Generally<strong> solitary when nesting<\/strong>, the Whimbrel tends to become<strong> gregarious outside of<\/strong> the <strong>breeding seaso<\/strong>n.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Whimbrels are known for their<strong> high-pitched call<\/strong> consisting of a <strong>repetitive series of seven notes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IUCN Red List: Least Concern<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a wading bird?<\/h3>\n<p>A wading bird is a long-legged bird, such as a crane, heron, or stork, that frequents shallow water, especially in search of food.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2024\/May\/27\/chhattisgarh-gets-a-rare-sighting-of-gps-tagged-long-distance-migratory-bird-whimbrel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chhattisgarh gets a rare sighting of GPS-tagged long-distance migratory bird \u2018whimbrel\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurasian Whimbrel is a wading bird in the large family Scolopacidae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23787","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\/23787","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=23787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}