{"id":24752,"date":"2024-07-04T09:33:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24752"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:26:35","slug":"nightjars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nightjars\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Nightjars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nightjars:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>medium-sized nocturnal insectivorous birds<\/strong> in the family Caprimulgidae and the order Caprimulgiformes.<\/li>\n<li>These birds are <strong>found all around the world<\/strong>, with the <strong>exception of Antarctica<\/strong>, <strong>and certain island<\/strong> groups, such as the Seychelles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>They are characterized by <strong>long wings,short legs,<\/strong> and very <strong>short bills.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They <strong>feed on flying insects<\/strong> that they <strong>catch on the wing at night<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>grey-brown<\/strong>, <strong>mottled<\/strong>, streaked, and <strong>stripey plumage<\/strong> provides <strong>ideal camouflage<\/strong> in the daytime.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>During the <strong>day, they sleep on the ground or perched<\/strong>, usually lengthwise, on a branch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They are among the most difficult bird species to study due to their unobtrusive and nocturnal behavior and cryptic plumage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Lesser Sunda Islands:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lesser Sunda Islands are an archipelago in <strong>maritime Southeast Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is located to the immediate <strong>east of Java<\/strong> and to the <strong>north of Western Australia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Major islands<\/strong> in the group include <strong>Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, and Timor<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west, they make up the Sunda Islands.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The islands are <strong>part of a volcanic arc<\/strong>, the <strong>Sunda Arc<\/strong>, <strong>formed by subduction along the Sunda Trench in the Java Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a volcanic arc?<\/h3>\n<p>A volcanic arc is a chain of volcanoes, hundreds to thousands of miles long, that forms above a subduction zone. An island volcanic arc forms in an ocean basin via ocean-ocean subduction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/biology\/caprimulgus-ritae-13064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Species of Bird Discovered on Lesser Sunda Islands<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal insectivorous birds in the family Caprimulgidae and the order Caprimulgiformes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24752","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\/24752","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=24752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}