{"id":240014,"date":"2023-04-28T20:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240014"},"modified":"2023-05-02T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T11:01:21","slug":"a-flamboyance-of-lesser-flamingos-have-arrived-at-chennais-pulicat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-flamboyance-of-lesser-flamingos-have-arrived-at-chennais-pulicat\/","title":{"rendered":"A flamboyance of lesser flamingos have arrived at Chennai\u2019s Pulicat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cA flamboyance of lesser flamingos have arrived at Chennai\u2019s Pulicat\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 28th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a six-year absence, the lesser flamingos have finally arrived at Pulicat Lake.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Lesser Flamingos?<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_240015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240015\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240015 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1800.jpeg?resize=538%2C404&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lesser Flamingos\" width=\"538\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1800.jpeg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1800.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1800.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1800.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1800.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1800.jpeg?resize=1568%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lesser flamingo is the smallest of all flamingos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They possess the &#8220;hallux&#8221; or hind toe that some other flamingos do not have. Males are a little taller than females.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are rare migratory birds from the sub-Saharan region in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are found in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> alkaline lakes and coastal lagoons where they gather in huge flocks to eat microscopic blue-green algae.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>IUCN Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Near Threatened<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Pulicat Lake?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pulicat Lake is the second largest brackish water lagoon in India, (after Chilika Lake).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is located on the border between Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake encompasses the Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The barrier island of Sriharikota separates the lake from the Bay of Bengal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rivers Swarnamukhi and Kalangi in the north and the Arani and the Korttalaiyar (as the Kosasthalaiyar is referred to in old British era documents) in the south drain into Pulicat Lake during the monsoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cA flamboyance of lesser flamingos have arrived at Chennai\u2019s Pulicat\u201d published in The Hindu on 28th April 2023 What is the News? After a six-year absence, the lesser flamingos have finally arrived at Pulicat Lake. What are Lesser Flamingos? The Lesser flamingo is the smallest of all&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-flamboyance-of-lesser-flamingos-have-arrived-at-chennais-pulicat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A flamboyance of lesser flamingos have arrived at Chennai\u2019s Pulicat<\/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":[11539,10498],"class_list":["post-240014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-lesser-flamingo","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240014","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=240014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}