{"id":75294,"date":"2025-11-27T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=75294"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:44:41","slug":"finns-weaver-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/finns-weaver-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn\u2019s Weaver Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Finn\u2019s Weaver Bird Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Ornithologists have been alerted that the Finn\u2019s Weaver bird is silently disappearing from the marshy lowlands of the Terai region in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Finn\u2019s Weaver Bird<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finn&#8217;s weaver (Ploceus megarhynchus ) is also known as <\/span><b>Finn&#8217;s baya and yellow weaver<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a weaver bird species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The weaver bird was named Finn\u2019s Weaver <\/span><b>after Frank Finn<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the British officer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is native to the <\/span><b>Ganges and Brahmaputra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> valleys in India and Nepal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They live close <\/span><b>to dams and reservoirs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Water, marshy soil, tall grasses, Semal (silk cotton) and <\/span><b>Shisham <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(rosewood) trees make up <\/span><b>its natural habitat.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These birds build their nests <\/span><b>on tall grass and these trees.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weaver birds are <\/span><b>largely granivorous birds,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with adults feeding mainly on seeds, supplemented with invertebrates<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Human activities <\/span><b>including expansion of agriculture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, grass cutting, construction work, residential buildings, and increase <\/span><b>in industrial units across<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Terai has disrupted the natural habitat of these birds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Conservation Status of Finn\u2019s Weaver Bird<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vulnerable<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wildlife-protection-act\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Schedule IV.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/extinction-alert-the-finns-weaver-is-silently-disappearing-from-the-marshy-lowlands-of-the-terai#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finn\u2019s Weaver Birds are also known as Finn&#8217;s baya and yellow weaver is a weaver bird species. 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