{"id":2526,"date":"2024-11-17T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:51:06","slug":"red-headed-vulture-is-critically-endangered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/red-headed-vulture-is-critically-endangered\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-headed vulture is critically endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Red-Headed Vulture:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This is one of the 9 species of Vulture which are found in India.<\/li>\n<li>It is also called the <strong>Asian King vulture<\/strong> or Pondicherry Vulture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> It is a dark, medium-sized vulture with a bare reddish head and loose flaps on the side of the neck.<\/li>\n<li>It weighs around 5 kg and averaging over 80 cm in length, the vulture is primarily solitary, often seen alone or with a mate.<\/li>\n<li>Its black plumage is marked by a distinctive white patch on the abdomen, which becomes more prominent during flight.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> The Red-Headed Vulture is typically found in Central India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and parts of Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breeding:<\/strong> Breeding typically takes place between <strong>November and January<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List:<\/strong> Critically Endangered<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wildlife Protection Act, 1972:<\/strong> Schedule 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Issue:<\/strong> It was extensively found in India but its numbers drastically reduced after diclofenac poisoning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is diclofenac?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a drug used in the treatment and management of acute and chronic pain associated with inflammatory conditions, especially those involving the musculoskeletal system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/in-a-first-rare-red-headed-vulture-spotted-in-kasaragod\/article68872430.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a first, rare Red-Headed Vulture spotted in Kasaragod<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-Headed Vulture is also called the Asian King vulture or Pondicherry Vulture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2526","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\/2526","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=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}