{"id":30341,"date":"2025-02-24T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30341"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:29:05","slug":"northern-pintail-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/northern-pintail-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Pintail Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Northern Pintail Duck Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A flock of rare northern pintail ducks has been recently spotted at an unprecedented altitude of 13,500 feet in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<h2>About Northern Pintail Duck<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>graceful, migratory waterfowl<\/strong> celebrated for its striking appearance and fascinating behavior.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: <strong>Anas acuta<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Northern Pintail Duck Distribution<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes referred to as the <strong>northern nomads<\/strong>, northern pintails have<strong> extensive migratory routes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have been found on e<strong>very continent except Antarctica<\/strong> but typically do not live or breed south of the equator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Northern Pintail Duck Features\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are<strong> named for their long central tail feathers<\/strong> ending in what appears to be a point.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>male is a buff-gray color<\/strong> with a c<strong>hocolate-covered head, <\/strong>a wide white strip on his chest and black patterning on his back.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Females <\/strong>and non-breeding males are<strong> mottled brown with a light chest, and neck.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These large ducks can reach over 60 centimeters long and weigh over one kilogram.<\/li>\n<li>Their wingspan spreads up to 91 centimeters.<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>aerodynamic build <\/strong>makes them <strong>fast flyers, <\/strong>capable of reaching speeds up to 48 mph.<\/li>\n<li>In the wild, northern pintails can <strong>live up to 22 years <\/strong>old.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Status: &#8216;<strong>Least Concern\u2019 under the IUCN Red List.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Northern Pintail Duck FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Is pintail duck a migratory bird in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Yes, the Northern Pintail (<i>Anas acuta<\/i>) is a migratory bird in India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the lifespan of northern pintail?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Pintails can live as long as 22 years in the wild.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the rarest duck in the world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Madagascar Pochard (<i>Aythya innotata<\/i>) is considered the rarest duck in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/arunachal-pradesh\/arunachal-rare-northern-pintail-ducks-spotted-in-tawang.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Pintail Duck is a graceful, migratory waterfowl celebrated for its striking appearance and fascinating behavior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30341","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\/30341","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=30341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}