{"id":30290,"date":"2025-02-22T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30290"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:02:53","slug":"blue-cheeked-bee-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/blue-cheeked-bee-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the first breeding site of the Blue-Cheeked Bee-eater (merops persicus) in peninsular India has been discovered in the saltpans of Aandivilai near the Manakudy Mangroves in Kanniyakumari district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>near passerine bird<\/strong> in the bee-eater family, Meropidae.<\/li>\n<li>It was historically known as <strong>passage migrant<\/strong> and winter visitor in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat: <\/strong>This bird favors <strong>sub-tropical semi-desert regions<\/strong> dotted with sparse trees, such as acacias, for breeding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Behaviour: <\/strong>It may choose to nest solitarily or in small, loose colonies of up to ten individuals. It is also known to share colonies with <strong>European bee-eaters<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breeding Range:<\/strong> Its breeding was primarily recorded in regions such as <strong>Nile Delta, Pakistan, and Iran<\/strong> while its wintering grounds include <strong>parts of Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In its breeding grounds, this species occupies <strong>semi-desert, steppe, dunes, saline pans, cultivation, thorn woodland<\/strong> and sandy slopes with small gulleys, ravines, quarries, pits and embankments.<\/li>\n<li>It breeds mainly in sand deserts near bodies of water fringed with reeds and tamarisks.<\/li>\n<li>During the non-breeding season it inhabits a wide variety of greener habitats including savanna, broad river valleys, woods, lakeshores, swamps, ponds, dams, waterworks and cultivation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong> Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> Where do blue cheeked bee-eaters live?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The blue-cheeked bee-eater breeds across Northern Africa and the Middle East, from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What do blue cheeked bee-eaters eat?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> As the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What is the classification of the blue tailed bee eater?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/first-breeding-record-of-blue-cheeked-bee-eater-discovered-in-peninsular-india\/article69242534.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue-Cheeked Bee-Eater   is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30290","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\/30290","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=30290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}