{"id":327213,"date":"2025-02-19T18:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=327213"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:47:06","slug":"white-winged-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/white-winged-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"White-Winged Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A rare pair of white-winged ducks was recently spotted in Assam&#8217;s Dehing Patkai National Park.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Rare White-Winged Ducks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.assettype.com\/sentinelassam-english%2F2025-02-15%2Fwvzyk34c%2FWhite-wingedDuckRWD3.jpg?resize=480%2C269&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"White-winged duck Assam\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Sentinel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>white-winged duck<\/strong> (<em>Asarcornis scutulata<\/em>) is also known as <strong>Deo Hanh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a rare and endangered species primarily found in the dense forests of South and Southeast Asia.<\/li>\n<li>This elusive bird is the <strong>state bird of Assam, India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>forest-dwelling species<\/strong> that inhabit wetlands, swamps, slow-moving streams, and channels within dense tropical forests.<\/li>\n<li>In India, their populations are mainly found in <strong>Assam\u2019s Nameri National Park and Dihing Patkai National Park<\/strong>, with smaller fragmented populations in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beyond India<\/strong>, they are also distributed across <strong>Bhutan, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and other Southeast Asian countries.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Despite their wide distribution, their population has significantly declined due to:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deforestation:<\/strong> Rapid loss of forest cover has destroyed their natural habitat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hunting:<\/strong> These birds have been subjected to poaching in several regions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human Encroachment:<\/strong> Increasing human activities near their habitat have led to habitat degradation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status:<\/strong>IUCN <strong>: <\/strong>Endangered status<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>White-Winged Duck Recovery Project<\/strong> was initiated in 2018 focussing on tracking and protecting these birds through <strong>passive acoustic monitoring<\/strong> and habitat conservation strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A rare pair of white-winged ducks was recently spotted in Assam&#8217;s Dehing Patkai National Park. About Rare White-Winged Ducks The white-winged duck (Asarcornis scutulata) is also known as Deo Hanh. It is a rare and endangered species primarily found in the dense forests of South and Southeast Asia. This elusive bird is the state&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/white-winged-ducks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White-Winged Ducks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039],"tags":[11872,11074],"class_list":["post-327213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327213","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}