{"id":96696,"date":"2026-04-05T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=96696"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:23:58","slug":"bengal-florican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bengal-florican\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal Florican"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bengal Florican Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fewer than 1,000 Bengal floricans remain worldwide, with small, fragmented populations restricted to remnant alluvial grasslands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bengal Florican<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a grassland <\/span><b>indicator species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a <\/span><b>bustard mostly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found in the seasonally <\/span><b>inundated alluvial grasslands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Gangetic-Brahmaputra plains.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is distributed in the states of <\/span><b>Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India, in the terai of <\/span><b>Nepal and in Bangladesh.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key strongholds in India are<\/span><b> Dudhwa National Park<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Uttar Pradesh and several sites across Assam\u2014<\/span><b>Manas, Kaziranga, Orang, and Dibru-Saikhowa National Parks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The male bird shows black plumage, with a crest and elongated display feathers that are raised <\/span><b>during courtship,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and white wing patches become visible in flight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It makes vertical leaps, wing movements and vocalisations along with other males, a <\/span><b>behaviour known as \u201clekking\u201d,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><b>establish territories and attract females.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It shows <\/span><b>reverse sexual dimorphism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and colour dichromatism (male and female are differently coloured).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are <\/span><b>omnivorous birds.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They eat various insects, fruits, seeds, and flowers and also feed on small snakes and lizards.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Land conversion, expansion of agriculture, <\/span><b>annual grassland burning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, overgrazing, encroachment, change of river course, fragmentation from infrastructure development, invasive plant species and fire mismanagement have altered their habitat.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Conservation Status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Critically Endangered<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Wild Life Protection Act 1972: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schedule I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/the-last-dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengal Florican: rare grassland bustard of the Gangetic-Brahmaputra plains, found in UP, Assam, Arunachal, Nepal, and Bangladesh. 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