{"id":5016,"date":"2023-01-14T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T03:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:17:16","slug":"asian-waterbird-census-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asian-waterbird-census-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Waterbird Census 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In the recent survey, it is revealed that Duck species sighted in previous surveys were missing this time.<\/li>\n<li>The most shocking aspect was that duck species like Northern Shoveler, Common teal and Eurasian wigeon, sighted in the previous surveys, were totally missing this time around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about the main birds which were sighted during the census\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oriental darter<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is mainly found in freshwater rivers and ponds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>IUCN: <strong>Near Threat<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cattle egret<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>IUCN: <strong>Least Concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Spot-billed Pelican<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It breeds in southern Asia from southern Iran across India east to Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>IUCN: <strong>Near Threatened<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: Schedule IV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who conducts the Asian Waterbird Census?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an integral part of the global waterbird monitoring programme, which is conducted by the International Waterbird Census (IWC) in coordination with Wetlands International.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>A survey at Alappuzha wetlands hints at a decline in the number of visiting waterbirds<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Waterbird Census<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5016","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\/5016","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=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}