{"id":3202,"date":"2023-02-11T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:27:17","slug":"indian-white-backed-vulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-white-backed-vulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian White-backed Vulture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Indian white-backed vulture:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>medium-sized, dark vultures.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific name: <\/strong><i><strong>Gyps bengalensis<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: <strong>Pakistan, India, Bangladesh<\/strong>, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and southern Vietnam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: Found mostly in <strong>plains and less frequently in hilly regions<\/strong>. Can also be seen in <strong>villages<\/strong> and cities <strong>near to cultivation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Adults are <strong>75 to 85 cm tall.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>White neck ruff, rump<\/strong> and under wing coverts.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adults tend towards black coloration<\/strong>, while younger individuals are browner<\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>wing span is 180 to 210 cm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Weight<\/strong>: Ranges from <strong>3.5 to 7.5 kg<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Status: Critically Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0How many species of vultures are found in India?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>A total of nine species of vultures are found in India. Out of these six species are resident (white\u2013rumped vulture, Indian vulture, slender-billed vulture, red-headed vulture, bearded vulture and Egyptian vulture) and three species are migratory (cinereous vulture, griffon vulture and Himalayan vulture).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/oriental-white-backed-vultures-in-landmark-moment-13-critically-endangered-vultures-released-in-bengal-3772923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In Landmark Moment, 13 Critically Endangered Vultures Released In Bengal<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) are medium-sized, dark vultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3202","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\/3202","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=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}