{"id":8024,"date":"2022-11-21T05:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:54:33","slug":"great-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/great-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Knot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Great Knot:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Great Knot is an international migratory wading bird that travels vast distances between the northern hemisphere breeding grounds and southern hemisphere summer feeding grounds.<\/li>\n<li>The Great Knot is a medium-sized shorebird with a straight, slender bill of medium length and a heavily streaked head and neck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Scientific name:<\/strong>\u00a0Calidris tenuirostris<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Species author:<\/strong>\u00a0(Horsfield, 1821)<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Distribution:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Great Knots occur around coastal areas in many parts of Australia during the southern summer.<\/li>\n<li>They breed in eastern Siberia, and when on migration they occur throughout coastal regions of eastern and South East Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Habitat:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In Australia, Great Knots inhabit intertidal mudflats and sandflats in sheltered coasts, including bays harbours and estuaries.<\/li>\n<li>They forage on the moist mud, and they often roost on beaches or in nearby low vegetation, such as mangroves or dune vegetation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Conservation:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:<\/strong>\u00a0Endangered<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/russian-bird-comes-calling-on-keralas-coast-for-a-winter-sojourn\/article66160235.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Knot is a medium-sized shorebird with a slender bill of medium length and a heavily streaked head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8024","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\/8024","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=8024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}