{"id":4661,"date":"2023-01-18T07:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:11:16","slug":"greater-scaup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/greater-scaup\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Scaup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Greater Scaup<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Greater scaup is locally known as <strong>Sadangman<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a medium-sized diving duck species that belongs to the family of Anatidae.<\/li>\n<li>The greater scaup species is distributed in Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada. It is a rare visitor to the Indian Subcontinent.<\/li>\n<li>The breeding scaup inhabits shallow, freshwater lakes, pools and rivers with grassy shorelines.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The greater scaup species are <strong>highly migratory<\/strong>, breeding near arctic regions and migrating to the warmer south from August onwards.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0IUCN Red List: <strong>Least concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Loktak Lake<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Loktak Lake is a freshwater lake in the Manipur state.<\/li>\n<li>It is famous for unique floating islands called Phumdis with multiple plant species.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Keibul Lamjao National Park<\/strong> located on the Loktak Lake is the last natural habitat of the \u201cSangai\u201d the dancing deer of Manipur.<\/li>\n<li>The lake is designated as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which state has most number of Ramsar sites in India?<\/h3>\n<p>Tamil Nadu has 14 Ramsar sites which is the highest amongst Indian states.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>Rare species of duck sighted in Manipur\u2019s Loktak lake after over 90 years<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater scaup is a medium-sized diving duck species that belongs to the family of Anatidae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4661","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\/4661","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=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}