{"id":238474,"date":"2023-04-18T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238474"},"modified":"2023-04-19T13:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:12:32","slug":"mangrove-pittas-first-ever-census-finds-179-mangrove-pitta-birds-in-two-coastal-odisha-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mangrove-pittas-first-ever-census-finds-179-mangrove-pitta-birds-in-two-coastal-odisha-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangrove Pittas: First-ever census finds 179 mangrove pitta birds in two coastal Odisha districts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>First-ever census finds 179 mangrove pitta birds in two coastal Odisha districts<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b><b>on <\/b><b>18th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A first ever census of mangrove pitta birds was conducted in two coastal districts of Odisha where a total of 179 individual mangrove pitta birds were sighted.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Mangrove Pittas?<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_238475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238475\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-238475 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/download.jpeg?resize=183%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mangrove Pittas\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wiki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">angrove pitta is a species of passerine bird in the family Pittidae native to the eastern Indian Subcontinent and western Southeast Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Distribution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, it is found in a few pockets of eastern India, including Odisha\u2019s Bhitarkanika and West Bengal\u2019s Sundarbans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Habitat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is found in mangrove and nipa palm forests where it feeds on crustaceans, mollusks and insects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>IUCN Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Threats<\/strong>: It is threatened by habitat loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cFirst-ever census finds 179 mangrove pitta birds in two coastal Odisha districts\u201d published in The Hindu on 18th April 2023 What is the News? A first ever census of mangrove pitta birds was conducted in two coastal districts of Odisha where a total of 179 individual mangrove&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mangrove-pittas-first-ever-census-finds-179-mangrove-pitta-birds-in-two-coastal-odisha-districts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mangrove Pittas: First-ever census finds 179 mangrove pitta birds in two coastal Odisha districts<\/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":[1566,9],"tags":[11455,10498],"class_list":["post-238474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-mangrove-pitta-birds","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704871032},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238474","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=238474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}