{"id":90025,"date":"2026-02-26T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=90025"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:30:46","slug":"smew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/smew\/","title":{"rendered":"Smew"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Smew Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The smew was recently sighted for the first time in the Kaziranga during the 7th Waterbird Count at Rowmari-Donduwa beels (Laokhowa) buffer of Kaziranga Tiger Reserve sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Smew<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>small diving duck<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific Name: Mergellus albellus<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Smew <\/b><b>Habitat and Distribution<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smews <\/span><b>breed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>northern taiga of Europe and the Palearctic.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They<\/span><b> need trees for breeding <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>prefer to live on fish-rich lakes and slow rivers.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smews <\/span><b>spend winters <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on sheltered <\/span><b>coasts or inland lakes of the Baltic Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Black Sea, northern Germany,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>Low Countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with a small number reaching Great Britain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Smew <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>compact <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">diving duck with a <\/span><b>delicate bill.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>male <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is w<\/span><b>hite with a black mask and a black back<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>female is gre<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y with a <\/span><b>reddish-brown head and white cheek.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In flight, it shows black and white wings.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The smew&#8217;s <\/span><b>bill <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has a <\/span><b>hooked tip and serrated edges,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which <\/span><b>help it catch fish <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when it dives for them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Smew <\/b><b>Conservation Status<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is classified as &#8216;<b>Least Concern<\/b>&#8216; under the IUCN Red List.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/rare-smew-sighted-for-1st-time-in-kaziranga-during-7th-waterbird-count\/articleshow\/128792035.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TOI<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smew is a small diving duck formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus. 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