{"id":66821,"date":"2025-10-06T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=66821"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:44:32","slug":"ortolan-bunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ortolan-bunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ortolan Bunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ortolan Bunting Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rare European bird,\u00a0 the Ortolan Bunting, with just a single recorded sighting in Bengal, was spotted at Baruipur, situated in the southern periphery of the city, recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ortolan Bunting<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>small Palearctic migrant songbird.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Scientific Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Emberiza hortulana<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The bird is found in <\/span><b>most of Europe,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with populations <\/span><b>found as far west as Mongolia and as far north as the Arctic Circle.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Ortolan Bunting <\/b><b>Habitat<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its habitat consists of o<\/span><b>pen, cultivated, or uncultivated areas with sparse woody vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, up to an altitude of 2500 metres locally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>absolutely avoids forested areas, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including during migration.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> oceanic climate is not suitable <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Ortolan Bunting <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is small, with a length of 6.3 to 6.7 inches and a wingspan of about 10 inches.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>males <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have a <\/span><b>greenish-gray head along with a yellow throat,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> swooping mustache, and ring around the eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>belly is brown <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and its back and rump are brown and streaked.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> females and juveniles are smaller, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have<\/span><b> spots on the belly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and are <\/span><b>duller overall.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like most buntings, the ortolan has a <\/span><b>conical beak <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that\u2019s good for cracking seeds.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Ortolan Bunting <\/b><b>Conservations Status<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>It is classified as <strong>&#8216;Least Concerned&#8217;<\/strong> under the IUCN Red List.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/amp\/west-bengal\/kolkata\/rare-european-bird-spotted-in-baruipur-wrong-turn-on-its-migration-route-to-africa-prnt\/cid\/2126312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TELE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ortolan Bunting is a small Palearctic migrant songbird. Read more about Ortolan Bunting, Scientific Name, Distribution, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":66771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3093,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-66821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ortolan-bunting","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\/66821","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=66821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}