{"id":89388,"date":"2026-02-23T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=89388"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:44:14","slug":"ferruginous-pochard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ferruginous-pochard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferruginous Pochard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ferruginous Pochard Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a lone Ferruginous Pochard was found among a flock of Common Pochards at Amoor lake, Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Ferruginous Pochard<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known as <\/span><b>ferruginous duck, common white-eye or white-eyed pochard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Aythya nyroca ) is a medium-sized diving duck <\/span><b>from Eurosiberia.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It prefers quite <\/span><b>shallow fresh water bodies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with rich submerged and floating vegetation with dense stands of emergent vegetation on the margins.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is mainly found in <\/span><b>Europe, Asia, Africa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> especially China, Mongolia, Portugal, France, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>duck winters throughout<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, smaller numbers migrate into sub-Saharan Africa via the <\/span><b>Nile Valley.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They eat aquatic plants with some <\/span><b>molluscs, aquatic insects and small fish.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is threatened by the degradation and destruction of its habitats by anthropogenic causes which are very wide and varied including impoundment, drainage, pollution and mismanagement.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Conservation Status<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/ferruginous-pochard-shows-up-and-a-sleepy-village-near-chennai-comes-to-life\/article70662897.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferruginous Pochard prefers quite shallow fresh water bodies with rich submerged and floating vegetation with dense stands of emergent vegetation on the margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":89373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5651,3815,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-89388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-ferruginous-pochard","9":"tag-prelims-pointer","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\/89388","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89394,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89388\/revisions\/89394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}