{"id":4138,"date":"2023-01-24T08:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:34:57","slug":"chestnut-winged-cuckoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chestnut-winged-cuckoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnut-winged Cuckoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Chestnut-winged cuckoo:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name:<\/strong> <i><strong>Clamator coromandus<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li>The chestnut-winged cuckoo is a <strong>small bird, measuring 35 to 45 cm in length<\/strong> and <strong>weighing 60 to 90 grams.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: <strong>India<\/strong>, <strong>Nepal<\/strong>, <strong>Bhutan<\/strong>, Bangladesh, Myanmar, <strong>southeast China<\/strong>, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, <strong>Sri Lanka<\/strong>, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat <\/strong>: Includes <strong>tropical and temperate deciduous\/evergreen forests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are mostly <strong>migratory <\/strong>and <strong>breed during summer in north India<\/strong>, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, southeast China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>They winter in south India<\/strong>, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands (India), Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN Status: &#8220;Least Concern&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a brood parasitism?<\/h3>\n<p>Brood Parasitism in birds is defined as the interaction in which a bird species (parasitic)\u00a0 places its eggs in a host species\u2019 nest to free itself from parental obligations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/now-the-chestnut-winged-cuckoo-has-more-pit-stops-in-and-around-chennai\/article66418336.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Now the chestnut-winged cuckoo has more pit stops in and around Chennai<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chestnut-winged cuckoo is a small bird, measuring 35 to 45 cm in length and weighing 60 to 90 grams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4138","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\/4138","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=4138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}