{"id":29824,"date":"2025-02-03T04:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29824"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:40:13","slug":"golden-headed-cisticola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/golden-headed-cisticola\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden-headed Cisticola"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Golden-headed Cisticola Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, Golden-headed Cisticola bird was discovered for the first time in the Mathikettan Shola National Park, Idukki in the southern Western Ghats after an extensive gap.<\/p>\n<h2>About Golden-headed Cisticola<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Scientific Name of the Golden-headed Cisticola is Cisticola exilis.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>bright-capped cisticola<\/strong>, is a species of warbler in the family Cisticolidae.<\/li>\n<li>It is omnivorous, primarily eating invertebrates such as insects and small slugs, but also eating grass seeds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat of Golden-headed Cisticola:<\/strong> It is usually found in <strong>grasslands <\/strong>in the mountain ranges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution of Golden-headed Cisticola:<\/strong> It is found in <strong>Australia and Asian countries<\/strong>. In India it has been observed in parts of <strong>Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and northern Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Golden-headed Cisticola Appearance:<\/strong> Male birds have distinct <strong>golden-orange plumage<\/strong> on their head, neck, and chest during breeding. They also have pinkish beaks and black streaks on their backs. They can be easily identified by their distinctive call.<\/li>\n<li>The bird was previously spotted in the grasslands of Banasura Hills in Wayanad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Mathikettan Shola National Park<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the southern part of the Palakkad Gap in the <strong>Western Ghats of Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation of Mathikettan Shola National Park:<\/strong> It houses <strong>evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests<\/strong>, shola grasslands and semi-evergreens.<\/li>\n<li>Three streams namely Uchillkuthi Puzha, Mathikettan Puzha, and Njandar being the <strong>tributaries of Panniyar,<\/strong> originate from the hill ranges of Mathikettan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest Point of Mathikettan Shola National Park : Kattumala<\/strong> is located in the eastern border of the park <strong>adjoining Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Muthavan tribes are<\/strong> situated about the northeastern borders of Mathikettan Shola.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Golden-headed Cisticola FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Why is the Golden-headed Cisticola called the tailor bird?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Golden-headed Cisticola is its habit of sewing leaves together with cobweb to form (and conceal) its nest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> What is a Cisticola?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> These are a genus of very small insectivorous birds\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>What is the Golden-headed Cisticola habitat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans. <\/strong>It lives in sub-coastal areas, wetlands, swamp margins<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/golden-headed-cisticola-found-in-mathikettan-shola-national-park\/article69173117.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden-headed Cisticola is also known as the bright-capped cisticola, is a species of warbler in the family Cisticolidae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29824","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\/29824","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=29824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}