{"id":28393,"date":"2024-12-02T04:55:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28393"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:28:05","slug":"red-breasted-flycatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/red-breasted-flycatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-breasted Flycatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Red-breasted Flycatcher:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scientific name:<\/strong> Ficedula parva.<\/li>\n<li>It is a small (11-12 cm) <strong>passerine bird<\/strong> of the Old World Flycatcher family.<\/li>\n<li>It can be found occasionally feeding on figs (banyan, peepal) in our urban gardens.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> Males have a <strong>reddish-orange throat<\/strong> that extends till the upper breast, whereas the females are overall brown.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They can be distinguished from other orders by the arrangement of their toes \u2014 three pointing forward and one backward, a design that helps them to cling onto branches efficiently.<\/li>\n<li>It generally <strong>migrates from Eastern Europe<\/strong> to escape the harsh winter there and enjoy the moderate temperatures with abundance of food in South Asia.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breeding:<\/strong> The bird breeds from spring to summer, in the <strong>deciduous mixed forests of Eastern Europe and across Central Asia<\/strong>. In <strong>winter months<\/strong> (September to March mostly), it migrates to forests, woodlands, orchards, parks, and roadside trees of the <strong>Indian Subcontinent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can be found in peninsular India during the winter season from October to March.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a passerine bird?<\/h3>\n<p>A passerine or passeriform is a member of the order Passeriformes, the largest order of birds, containing more than half of all species. They are also known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/red-breasted-flycatcher-a-12-cm-bird-which-migrates-from-eastern-europe-to-hyderabads-ameenpur-lake\/article68918317.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Red-breasted Flycatcher: A 12 cm bird which migrates from Eastern Europe to Hyderabad\u2019s Ameenpur lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-breasted Flycatcher  is a small (11-12 cm) passerine bird of the Old World Flycatcher family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28393","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\/28393","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=28393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}