{"id":97157,"date":"2026-04-08T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=97157"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:45:16","slug":"sanderling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sanderling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanderling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sanderling Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a tagged shorebird Sanderling that flew more than 7,400 km from South Australia has been spotted on the remote Narcondam Island in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sanderling<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a <\/span><b>small plump wading bird.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its name comes from Old English <\/span><b>sand-yr\u00f0ling and means &#8220;sand-ploughman&#8221;.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Appearance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the winter the <\/span><b>sanderling is very pale,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> almost white apart from a dark shoulder patch. Later in the summer, the face and throat become brick-red.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its habitat ranges from <\/span><b>moist sites<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with lots of vegetation to well-drained clay or gravel slopes, to the <\/span><b>tops of stony ridges.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can also be found on tidal sand flats, mud flats, and the shores of lakes and rivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is mainly found in<\/span><b> North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Oceania.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Migration:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These are <\/span><b>complete migrants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and travel between 3,000 to 10,000 km from their breeding grounds to their wintering sites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sanderlings are <\/span><b>carnivores (<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mollusciovres, insectivores). They eat small crabs and other small invertebrates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Loss of wetland habitats, pollution of the environment as well as the pollution from pesticides.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status: IUCN Red List: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Least Concern<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/shorebird-from-australia-spotted-over-7400-km-away-on-island-in-andamans-expert\/article70833087.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanderling (Calidris alba) is a migratory shorebird known for long-distance travel, recently spotted in Andaman, highlighting global migration and wetland conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":97174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3815,21,6699,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-97157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointer","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-sanderling","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97157","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=97157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97234,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97157\/revisions\/97234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}