{"id":3126,"date":"2023-02-15T06:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T00:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T04:58:19","slug":"where-is-saman-bird-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-saman-bird-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Saman Bird Sanctuary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Saman Bird sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Saman Bird Sanctuary in the Mainpuri district of <strong>Uttar Pradesh<\/strong> is a seasonal <strong>oxbow lake on the Ganges floodplain.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is designated as <strong>Ramasar wetland<\/strong> in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>It is heavily reliant on the arrival of the south-westerly monsoon in July and August, which provides the vast majority of annual rainfall.<\/li>\n<li>The Sanctuary regularly provides refuge to over 50,000 waterbirds<\/li>\n<li>It is an important wintering site for many migrating birds including the greylag goose (Anser anser), with over 1% of the South Asian population present during winter.<\/li>\n<li>Vulnerable species including the sarus crane and greater spotted eagle are also found in this wetland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an oxbow lake?<\/h3>\n<p>An oxbow lake is a type of lake which is formed when a wide meander from a stream or a river is cut off to form a lake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kanpur\/decline-in-migratory-bird-species-this-year-at-saman-bird-sanctuary\/articleshow\/97932890.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Decline in migratory bird species this year at Saman Bird sanctuar<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saman Bird Sanctuary in the Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh is a seasonal oxbow lake on the Ganges floodplain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3126","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\/3126","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=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}