{"id":6659,"date":"2023-03-18T03:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T22:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:42:54","slug":"karnala-bird-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/karnala-bird-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnala Bird Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Karnala Bird Sanctuary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Karnala Bird Sanctuary is located in the <strong>Raigad<\/strong> <strong>District of Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a habitat of woodland birds in the Western Ghats &amp; was one of the favoured areas of well-known ornithologist Dr Salim Ali.<\/li>\n<li>It also forms a catchment area of the <strong>Patalganga River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> The Sanctuary area is covered with <strong>mixed deciduous forest.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> Globally threatened and endemic birds like Long Billed Vultures, Malabar Gray Hornbill, Small Sun Bird and Shahin Falcon birds spp. are found in Karnala Bird Sanctuary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who is referred to as \u2018The Birdman of India\u2019?<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Salim Ali\u00a0 was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist, often referred to as the &#8220;birdman of India&#8221;. Dr. Salim Ali received many honours and awards for his contributions to science and conservation, including the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, two of India&#8217;s highest civilian awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/navi-mumbai\/karnala-bird-sanctuary-now-has-187-species\/articleshow\/98746006.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Karnala Bird Sanctuary now has 187 species<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located in Maharashtra, Karnala Bird Sanctuary is a habitat of woodland birds in the Western Ghats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6659","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\/6659","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=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}