{"id":28711,"date":"2025-02-16T04:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28711"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:01:50","slug":"white-winged-wood-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/white-winged-wood-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"White-Winged Wood Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>White-Winged Duck Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A pair of rare endangered white-winged ducks (Deo Hanh), which is the state bird of Assam, was spotted in Dihing Patkai National Park by conservationists and forest officials recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About White-Winged Duck<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The White-Winged Duck, also known as the White-Winged Wood Duck, is a <strong>large, rare,<\/strong> and e<strong>ndangered species of duc<\/strong>k found in freshwater wetlands and dense tropical forests of <strong>South and Southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: Asarcornis scutulata<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>Assamese, it is known as \u2018Deo Hans\u2019<\/strong> or spirit duck because of its ghostly call.<\/li>\n<li>It is considered <strong>one of the most threatened waterfowl specie<\/strong>s in the world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>White-Winged Duck Conservation Status: <\/strong>White-Winged Duck is classified as \u2018Critically Endangered\u2019 under the IUCN Red List.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>White-Winged Duck Distribution<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Prefers dense tropical and subtropical forests with slow-moving rivers, swamps, and wetlands.<\/li>\n<li>Found in <strong>India <\/strong>(Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur), <strong>Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra), and Malaysia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In India, it is mostly found in the <strong>Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, Kaziranga National Park, <\/strong>and the wetlands of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>White-Winged Duck Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a<strong> black body<\/strong>, a <strong>white head<\/strong> that is thickly spotted with black, conspicuous white patches on the wings, and red or orange eyes.<\/li>\n<li>Its average length is about 81 cm.<\/li>\n<li>The sexes are more or less alike, the male having more gloss on the plumage, and being much larger and heavier.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>crepuscular bird,<\/strong> as it is most active at dusk and dawn. The adults are largely omnivorous.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>White-Winged Duck FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What are the characteristics of a white-winged duck?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It has a black body, a white head that is thickly spotted with black, conspicuous white patches on the wings, and red or orange eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. In which national park white winged duck is found?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The White-Winged Duck (<i>Asarcornis scutulata<\/i>) is found in several protected areas, with one of the most notable locations being the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the IUCN status of the white-winged duck?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Critically Endangered<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/rare-white-winged-ducks-spotted-in-assam-forest\/articleshow\/118284336.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White-Winged Duck is a large, rare, and endangered species of duck found in freshwater wetlands and dense tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28711","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\/28711","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=28711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}