{"id":3602,"date":"2023-01-30T01:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T20:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:11:57","slug":"black-necked-stork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/black-necked-stork\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-necked Stork"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Black-necked Stork:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The black-necked stork is a <strong>tall long-necked wading bird<\/strong> in the stork family.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific name: <\/strong><i><strong>Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: It\u00a0 is distributed in the <strong>Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: They inhabits <strong>wetlands<\/strong>, such as floodplains of rivers with large shallow swamps and pools, and deeper permanent bodies of water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features of Black-necked Stork<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>large birds, measuring 110 to 140 cm in length<\/strong> and <strong>weighing 4,000 grams.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Their <strong>wingspan is 190 to 220 cm.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>male and female birds look alike<\/strong> but female is distinguished by its yellow eye.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN status: \u201cNear Threatened\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Bardasagar Reservoir:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>Porbandar district, Gujarat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Bardasagar dam is <strong>created to store rain water for agricultural purpose.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Bardasagar dam and farms on its periphery are the <strong>ideal winter escape for thousands of cranes<\/strong> i.e. Common crane and Demoiselle crane.<\/li>\n<li>Bardasagar is regular <strong>nesting ground for elegant Great crested Grebe<\/strong> like Mokarsagar. The \u201c<strong>weed ceremony<\/strong>\u201d and dancing ritual of Great crested Grebe can be seen here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a wading bird?<\/h3>\n<p>A wading bird is a long-legged bird, such as a crane, heron, or stork, that frequents shallow water, especially in search of food.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/cities\/rajkot\/bird-census-black-necked-stork-sighted-in-porbandar-for-second-year-8411667\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bird census: Black-necked stork sighted in Porbandar for second year<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-necked stork is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3602","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\/3602","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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}