{"id":28778,"date":"2024-12-16T02:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28778"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:32:21","slug":"little-bunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/little-bunting\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Little Bunting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Little Bunting:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>passerine bird<\/strong>\u00a0belonging to the bunting family (Emberizidae).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name: Emberiza pusilla\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It breeds across the taiga of the far<strong>\u00a0northeast of Europe<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>northern Eurosiberia<\/strong>\u00a0to the\u00a0<strong>Russian Far East<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>migratory<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>wintering\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0<strong>subtropics in northern India, southern China,<\/strong>\u00a0and the northern parts of Southeast Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>This is a\u00a0<strong>small bunting<\/strong>, measuring only 12\u201314 cm (4.7\u20135.5 in) in length.<\/li>\n<li>It has\u00a0<strong>white underparts<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>dark streaking on<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>breast and sides.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>With its chestnut face and white malar stripe, it resembles a small female reed bunting, but has black crown stripes, a white eye-ring, and a fine dark border to the rear of its chestnut cheeks.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>sexes are similar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The call is a distinctive zik, and the song is a rolling siroo-sir-sir-siroo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Least Concern<\/strong><\/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:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/jaipur\/rare-in-rajasthan-little-bunting-bird-spotted-for-1st-time-in-mount-abu\/articleshow\/116335717.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Rare in Rajasthan: Little bunting bird spotted for 1st time in Mount Abu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Bunting is a passerine bird belonging to the bunting family (Emberizidae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28778","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\/28778","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=28778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}