{"id":61840,"date":"2025-03-27T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=61840"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:48:32","slug":"painted-stork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/painted-stork\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Stork"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Painted Stork<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a team of researchers have successfully used to study nest site fidelity in painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) in the National Zoological Park, Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Painted Stork\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a large wading bird belonging to <\/span><b>the stork family.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They favor <\/span><b>freshwater wetlands,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but they also frequent irrigation canals and agricultural fields, particularly during the monsoon when rice fields are flooded.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found in the wetlands of the plains of <\/span><b>tropical Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> south of the Himalayas in the Indian Subcontinent and extending into Southeast Asia.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>not migratory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and only make short-distance movements in some parts of their range in response to changes in weather or food availability or for breeding.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Food:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Painted <\/span><b>storks are carnivores<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (piscivores). Their diet consists mainly of small fish, but also crustaceans, amphibians, insects, and reptiles.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They immerse their half open beaks in water and sweep them from side to side and snap up their prey of small fish that are sensed by touch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status: IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/researchers-use-deep-transfer-learning-to-study-nest-site-fidelity-in-painted-stork-in-delhi-zoo\/article70788300.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painted Stork is a large wetland bird found across South and Southeast Asia. Know its habitat, diet, distribution, behavior, and Near Threatened conservation status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":95143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2489,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-61840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-painted-stork","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95167,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61840\/revisions\/95167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}