{"id":31399,"date":"2025-03-22T07:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31399"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:09:27","slug":"eurasian-goshawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/eurasian-goshawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurasian Goshawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Eurasian Goshawk Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A Eurasian goshawk, a medium-large raptor, was recently spotted at Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary by a forest guard.<\/p>\n<h2>About Eurasian Goshawk<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>large, powerful bird of prey<\/strong> belonging to the Accipitridae family, which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards and harriers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name: Accipiter gentilis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is widely distributed across <strong>Europe, Asia,<\/strong> and parts<strong> of North America<\/strong> (where it is simply called the Northern Goshawk).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: Found in dense forests, particularly coniferous and mixed woodlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Eurasian Goshawk Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has relatively <strong>short, broad wings and a long tail.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>blue-grey above <\/strong>or <strong>brownish-grey with dark barring <\/strong>or streaking over a grey or <strong>white base color below,<\/strong> but Asian subspecies in particular range from nearly white overall to nearly black above.<\/li>\n<li>Females are significantly larger than males.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the Thane District of <strong>Maharashtra<\/strong>, 90 km northeast of Mumbai in the <strong>foothills of the Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary is spread over an area of 320 sq. km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has two <strong>rivers, the Tansa and Vaitarna, <\/strong>and the sanctuary gets its name from the former, which divides the sanctuary into two parts.<\/li>\n<li>The sanctuary forms the <strong>catchment area of Tansa Lake,<\/strong> along with the surrounding <strong>forests of Khardi, Vaitarna, Wada, and Shahapur ranges.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tansa reservoir<\/strong>, along with <strong>Vaitarna and Bhatsa reservoirs, <\/strong>is the <strong>major source of water for<\/strong> the cities of <strong>Mumbai and Thane.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Within Tansa Sanctuary is a <strong>fort at Mahuli, <\/strong>situated on a 762 m high hilltop.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation<\/strong>: The Sanctuary has <strong>Southern Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest<\/strong>, with a few <strong>patches of Evergreen forest.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora<\/strong>: It consists of trees like <strong>Kalamb, Bibla, Khair<\/strong>, Hed, Teak, and Bamboo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>At least 54 species of animals and 200 species of birds exist in the sanctuary.<\/li>\n<li>Major wild animals are <strong>Panther, Barking deer, Mouse deer, Hyena,<\/strong> Wild boar, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Two <strong>Critically Endangered Gyps species of vultures<\/strong>, the <strong>Vulnerable Pallas\u2019s Fish-Eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphu<\/strong>s, are also seen here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eurasian Goshawk Conservation Status: Least Concerned <\/strong>under the IUCN Red List.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Eurasian Goshawk FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. In which state is Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Maharashtra\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which two rivers flow through Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Tansa and Vaitarna<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What type of forest is predominantly found in Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Southern Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/techandscience\/eurasian-goshawk-spotted-for-the-first-time-at-tansa-wildlife-sanctuary\/ar-AA1Bn9dP?apiversion=v2&amp;noservercache=1&amp;domshim=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasian Goshawk is a large, powerful bird of prey from the Accipitridae family, known for its agility, sharp talons, and keen hunting skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31399","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\/31399","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=31399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}