{"id":87076,"date":"2019-12-17T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:09:01","slug":"mahanadi-bird-population-took-a-hit-due-to-cyclone-fani-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mahanadi-bird-population-took-a-hit-due-to-cyclone-fani-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahanadi bird population took a hit due to Cyclone Fani, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>A recent study has found that the impact of super cyclonic storm Fani had affected the bird populations along Mahanadi River.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the study:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The population of sandbar-nesting birds along a 40-km stretch along the Mahanadi river has declined by 81% .<\/li><li>The study also found that the population of the birds a day before the cyclone was about 800 which has dropped to 153 after the cyclone.<\/li><li>The highest decline was observed in the case of Glareola lactea (little pratincole) whose population dropped from over 500 to 50 before and after the cyclone.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other species on which the study was conducted:<\/strong>The study was also conducted on the following species along Mahanadi River Delta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rynchops albicollis (Indian skimmer) listed as Vulnerable under IUCN<\/li><li>Sterna aurantia (river tern) listed as Near Threatened under IUCN&nbsp;<\/li><li>Vanellus duvaucelii (river lapwing) listed as Near Threatened under IUCN&nbsp;<\/li><li>Esacus recurvirostris (great thick-knee) listed as Near Threatened under IUCN Red list.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mahanadi River:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Mahanadi River is a river of eastern India.The river is one of the largest Indian peninsular rivers that drains into the Bay of Bengal.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The river is 858 Kilometers long and flows through the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.<\/li><li>The river originates from the highlands of Chhattisgarh through collection of an array of streams and reaches Bay of Bengal.<\/li><li>Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River about 15 kilometres from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Glareola lactea(little pratincole):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The little pratincole or small Indian pratincole (Glareola lactea) is a small wader bird in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.<\/li><li>The bird is found in India, Western Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It breeds from December to March on gravel or sand banks near rivers and lakes laying 2-4 eggs in a ground scrape.<\/li><li>The bird is listed as Least Concern(LC) under the IUCN Red list.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:A recent study has found that the impact of super cyclonic storm Fani had affected the bird populations along Mahanadi River. Facts: Key takeaways from the study: The population of sandbar-nesting birds along a 40-km stretch along the Mahanadi river has declined by 81% . The study also found that the population of the birds&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mahanadi-bird-population-took-a-hit-due-to-cyclone-fani-says-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahanadi bird population took a hit due to Cyclone Fani, says study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4818,3084,4819],"class_list":["post-87076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bird-population","tag-cyclone-fani","tag-mahanadi-river","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704877110},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87076","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}