{"id":28252,"date":"2024-11-27T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28252"},"modified":"2025-04-08T17:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:23:30","slug":"dunlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dunlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dunlin:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small shorebird with a <strong>droopy bill and <\/strong>is a fully <strong>migratory circumpolar<\/strong> breeder.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Dunlins are a medium-sized sandpiper with a slightly down-curved black bill.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unique feature:<\/strong> During the summer breeding season, they have a <strong>large black belly spot<\/strong> and orange feathers on their back and in winter and nonbreeding season, they are all white with a gray back and head.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A group of Dunlin is known as a &#8220;<strong>flight,&#8221; &#8220;fling,&#8221; or &#8220;trip.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> During the breeding season, they live in coastal <strong>tundra areas<\/strong>. In the winter, they live along <strong>mudflats, estuaries, marshes and coastlines<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They spend the <strong>summer breeding season<\/strong> in the <strong>arctic and subarctic regions<\/strong>, and winter along both coasts of the United States and Mexico.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong> Insects form the main part of the Dunlin&#8217;s diet on the nesting grounds; they eat <strong>mollusks, worms, and crustaceans<\/strong> during the winter and on migration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Near threatened<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Threats:<\/strong> It is threatened by <strong>habitat loss<\/strong> caused by wetland draining, global warming, and <strong>invasive plants,<\/strong> particularly at migration staging and wintering areas.<\/li>\n<li>It is also vulnerable to <strong>avian influenza<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Tundra Ecosystem?<\/h3>\n<p>Tundra ecosystems are treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy, and rainfall is scant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Kochi\/dunlin-a-near-threatened-species-spotted-during-kerala-bird-race\/article68906263.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dunlin, a Near Threatened species, spotted during Kerala Bird Race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunlin is a small shorebird with a droopy bill and is a fully migratory circumpolar breeder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28252","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\/28252","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=28252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}