{"id":29670,"date":"2025-01-27T04:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29670"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:26:09","slug":"white-naped-tit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/white-naped-tit\/","title":{"rendered":"White-Naped Tit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>White-Naped Tit Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Bird enthusiasts recently documented the white-naped tit in North Karnataka&#8217;s Kappatagudda hills for the first time, identifying it by its call.<\/p>\n<h2>About White-Naped Tit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The white-naped tit (also called<strong> pied tit <\/strong>or <strong>white-winged tit<\/strong>) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: Machlolophus nuchalis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>endemic to India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is found in <strong>two disjunct populations<\/strong> in India: in the <strong>northwest <\/strong>(in Gujarat, Haryana, and Rajasthan) and in the <strong>south <\/strong>(thorn scrubs of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>White-Naped Tit Habitat: Dry thorn scrub forest<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>White-Naped Tit Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>only pied (black-and-white) tit in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>upperparts <\/strong>from forehead to tail are glossy black, with a prominent white patch on the lower nape and upper mantle.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The cheeks and the rest of the underparts are white, with a wide black central band running from throat to vent.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The wings have a large white patch with a few black bars.<\/li>\n<li>It is seen in pairs or small family groups.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Vulnerable<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>White-Naped Tit FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is a passerine bird?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 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>Q2.<\/strong> What is the IUCN Red List?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species\u2122 is the world&#8217;s most comprehensive information source on the global extinction risk status of animal, fungus and plant species.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Where is Kappatagudda Hills?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Kappatagudda Hills are located in the Gadag district of Karnataka, India. These hills are part of the Eastern Ghats<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/hubballi\/discovery-of-rare-white-naped-tit-in-north-karnatakas-kappatagudda-hills-marks-a-first\/articleshow\/117577896.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White-Naped Tit (also called pied tit or white-winged tit) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29670","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\/29670","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=29670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}