{"id":49244,"date":"2025-06-03T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49244"},"modified":"2025-06-04T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:45:06","slug":"caspian-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/caspian-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Caspian Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Caspian Gull Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Kozhikode-based ornithologist has reported the sighting of a rare migratory bird Caspian Gull(Larus cachinnans) for the first time in Kerala.<\/p>\n<h2>About Caspian Gull<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>monotypic,<\/strong>\u00a0large, white-headed gull and is one of the rarest gulls to be seen in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:\u00a0<\/strong>It typically nests on flat,\u00a0<strong>low-lying ground by water<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>During the breeding season the species nests near lakes surrounded by reedbeds in steppe and semi-desert (Central Asia) reservoirs, rivers, and on grassy or shrubby river islands<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong>\u00a0Its diet consists of fish, invertebrates including insects, molluscs etc.<\/li>\n<li>It is very difficult to identify since it closely\u00a0<strong>resembles the Steppe Gull.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Caspian Gull, usually found in Central Asia, visits northwestern India, such as Gujarat, in winter.<\/li>\n<li>They move from the\u00a0<strong>Black Sea to the Caspian Sea<\/strong>, then to southern and eastern Kazakhstan and western China. They winter in Asia and Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Traditionally, its wintering areas are from the\u00a0<strong>eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf<\/strong>\u00a0and western India but increasing numbers now disperse into Europe, into countries such as Sweden, Norway and Denmark.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN:<\/strong>\u00a0Least Concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Caspian Gull FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the rarest gull in the world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Galapagos lava gull<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the second largest gull species in the world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Glaucous Gulls<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/rare-migratory-bird-sighted-on-kappad-beach-five-years-ago-identified-as-caspian-gull\/article69649043.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caspian Gull is a monotypic, large, white-headed gull and is one of the rarest gulls to be seen in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[684,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-caspian-gull","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49244","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}