{"id":4569,"date":"2023-01-20T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:38:35","slug":"red-billed-quelea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/red-billed-quelea\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-Billed Quelea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenya&#8217;s government began to kill up to 6 million red-billed quelea birds, the world&#8217;s most populous bird species which are also known as &#8216;feathered locusts&#8217;.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The preferred method for eradicating pests in Africa has been to spray <strong>fenthion,<\/strong> which is an <strong>organophosphate pesticide,<\/strong> but scientists have noted that the substance is toxic to people and other non-target organisms.<\/li>\n<li>Fenthion has been listed in <strong>Annex III of the Rotterdam convention<\/strong> which aims to reduce risks from hazardous chemicals in agriculture.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Red-Billed Quelea\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small, short-tailed weaver with a mottled back and a yellow or reddish bill.<\/li>\n<li>Large flocks are resident and nomadic in arid savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0IUCN: Least Concerned<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Serengeti famous for?<\/h3>\n<p>Two million wildebeest migrate a distance of 2,900 kilometres (1,802 mi) from the Serengeti in neighbouring Tanzania to the Masai Mara in Kenya, in a constant. This Serengeti Migration of the wildebeest is listed among the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureworldnews.com\/articles\/55111\/20230119\/horde-6-million-red-billed-quelea-birds-feasting-rice-fields.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>6 Million Red-Billed Quelea Birds Feasting on Rice Fields Prompt for Pesticides in Kenya Farms<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-Billed Quelea is a small, short-tailed weaver with a mottled back and a yellow or reddish bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4569","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\/4569","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=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}