{"id":28542,"date":"2024-12-07T03:51:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28542"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:37:06","slug":"little-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/little-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Little Gull?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Little Gull:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus) is the <strong>smallest species of gull<\/strong> (seabird) in the world, belonging to the <strong>family Laridae<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>breeds in northern Europe and across the Palearctic<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>migratory<\/strong>, wintering on coasts in western Europe, the Mediterranean, and (in small numbers) the northeast United States.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: <strong>Seacoasts, bays, estuaries, rivers, lakes, ponds, marshes<\/strong>, and flooded fields.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>This is the smallest gull species, with a length of 25\u201330 cm, a wingspan of 61\u201378 cm, and a mass of 68\u2013162 g.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>pale grey in breeding plumage<\/strong> with a black hood, dark underwings, and often a <strong>pinkish flush on the breast<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In winter, the head goes white apart from a darker cap and eye-spot.<\/li>\n<li>The bill is thin and black, and the legs are dark red. The flight on rounded wings is somewhat tern-like.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Young birds have black markings on the head and upper parts<\/strong>, and a &#8220;W&#8221; pattern across the wings. They take three years to reach maturity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Least Concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is an estuary?<\/h3>\n<p>An estuary is an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean. In estuaries, the salty ocean mixes with a freshwater river, resulting in brackish water. Brackish water is somewhat salty, but not as salty as the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/gurgaon\/rare-eurasian-little-gull-spotted-for-the-first-time-in-ncr\/articleshow\/116056977.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eurasian little gull makes NCR \u2018debut\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus) is the smallest species of gull (seabird) in the world, belonging to the family Laridae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28542","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\/28542","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=28542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}