{"id":208098,"date":"2022-09-27T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208098"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:37:20","slug":"broad-billed-sandpiper-spotted-for-the-first-time-at-nanjarayan-tank-bird-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/broad-billed-sandpiper-spotted-for-the-first-time-at-nanjarayan-tank-bird-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Broad-billed sandpiper spotted for the first time at Nanjarayan tank bird sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cBroad-billed sandpiper spotted for the first time at Nanjarayan tank bird sanctuary\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 25th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broad-billed sandpiper (Calidris falcinellus) has been spotted for the first time at Nanjarayan tank bird sanctuary in Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Broad-billed<\/b><b> sandpiper?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Broad-billed sandpiper is a migratory bird species found in Northern Europe, particularly in the Nordic Countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, and in Siberia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bird spends its non-breeding season foraging on insects and crustaceans in the shallow waters and mud flats, mostly in the coastal belt of the eastern part of Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>IUCN Status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Least Concern<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>Nanjarayan Tank Bird Sanctuary?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nanjarayan Tank, a biodiversity hotspot has recently been announced as the 17th bird sanctuary of Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nanjarayan Tank, also known as Sarkar Periyapalayam Reservoir, is located on the outskirts of Tirupur city near Koolipalayam about 60 kilometres from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tank was built by the then-local King Nanjarayan as a source for irrigation and is a haven for migratory birds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cBroad-billed sandpiper spotted for the first time at Nanjarayan tank bird sanctuary\u201d published in The Hindu on 25th September 2022. What is the News? Broad-billed sandpiper (Calidris falcinellus) has been spotted for the first time at Nanjarayan tank bird sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. What is a Broad-billed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/broad-billed-sandpiper-spotted-for-the-first-time-at-nanjarayan-tank-bird-sanctuary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broad-billed sandpiper spotted for the first time at Nanjarayan tank bird sanctuary<\/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-208098","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":12,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700118279},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208098","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=208098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}