What is a Spot-Billed Pelican?<\/b><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/download-8.jpeg?resize=183%2C275&ssl=1\")
About Spot-Billed Pelican or grey pelican<\/strong>: It is a member of the pelican family. It is a large pale waterbird with a hefty pinkish pouched bill marked with dark spots on the upper mandible.<\/span>Conservation Status:<\/strong><\/p>\nIUCN Status:<\/b> Near Threatened<\/span><\/p>\nWildlife (Protection) Act, 1972<\/strong>: Schedule IV<\/p>\nNote<\/strong>: Under schedule IV, hunting is prohibited, but the penalty for any violation is less compared to the first two schedules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nHabitat<\/strong>: It is a bird of large inland and coastal waters, especially large lakes. The main habitat of the bird is in shallow lowland freshwaters.<\/span><\/p>\nThe bird is found to breed only in peninsular India, Sri Lanka and Cambodia.<\/span><\/p>\nThreats<\/strong>: Survival of Spot-billed Pelican birds is threatened by habitation loss due to deforestation, hunting, and pollution by organochlorine pesticides.<\/p>\nNematode infestation does not spread from one species to another species. But the infestation transfers from the fish, snails, and invertebrates. Since spot-billed pelicans are capable of hunting huge fish from the water bodies and swamps it is vulnerable to infestation.<\/span><\/p>\nSource<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u2018<\/b>Spot-billed pelicans dying en masse in Andhra Pradesh<\/b>\u2019 <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on 27th January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the News? A parasitic (nematode) infestation has led to mass deaths of spot-billed pelicans (Pelicanus philippensis) at Telineelapuram Important Bird Area (IBA) in Andhra Pradesh. What is a Spot-Billed Pelican? About Spot-Billed Pelican or grey pelican: It is a member of the pelican family. It is a large pale waterbird with a hefty… Continue reading Spot-billed pelicans dying en masse in Andhra Pradesh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-164678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700221797},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
About Spot-Billed Pelican or grey pelican<\/strong>: It is a member of the pelican family. It is a large pale waterbird with a hefty pinkish pouched bill marked with dark spots on the upper mandible.<\/span>Conservation Status:<\/strong><\/p>\nIUCN Status:<\/b> Near Threatened<\/span><\/p>\n Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972<\/strong>: Schedule IV<\/p>\n Note<\/strong>: Under schedule IV, hunting is prohibited, but the penalty for any violation is less compared to the first two schedules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Habitat<\/strong>: It is a bird of large inland and coastal waters, especially large lakes. The main habitat of the bird is in shallow lowland freshwaters.<\/span><\/p>\n The bird is found to breed only in peninsular India, Sri Lanka and Cambodia.<\/span><\/p>\n Threats<\/strong>: Survival of Spot-billed Pelican birds is threatened by habitation loss due to deforestation, hunting, and pollution by organochlorine pesticides.<\/p>\n Nematode infestation does not spread from one species to another species. But the infestation transfers from the fish, snails, and invertebrates. Since spot-billed pelicans are capable of hunting huge fish from the water bodies and swamps it is vulnerable to infestation.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u2018<\/b>Spot-billed pelicans dying en masse in Andhra Pradesh<\/b>\u2019 <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on 27th January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A parasitic (nematode) infestation has led to mass deaths of spot-billed pelicans (Pelicanus philippensis) at Telineelapuram Important Bird Area (IBA) in Andhra Pradesh. What is a Spot-Billed Pelican? About Spot-Billed Pelican or grey pelican: It is a member of the pelican family. It is a large pale waterbird with a hefty… Continue reading Spot-billed pelicans dying en masse in Andhra Pradesh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-164678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700221797},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}