{"id":234074,"date":"2024-02-06T01:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=234074"},"modified":"2024-02-06T01:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T19:48:03","slug":"ruddy-shelduck-flocks-spotted-in-tawang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/ruddy-shelduck-flocks-spotted-in-tawang\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruddy shelduck flocks spotted in Tawang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Prem Chetry ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 5 Feb:<\/strong> Flocks of ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) were spotted at Sangetser Lake and PT Tso Lake in Tawang district on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruddy shelduck is a migratory bird which winters in the Indian subcontinent and breeds in southeastern Europe and central Asia. It is known for its orange-brown body plumage with a paler head, while the tail and the flight feathers in the wings are black, contrasting with the white wing-coverts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;These birds visit both Sangetser Lake and PT Tso Lake in December. They live here without any disturbance for nearly two months,&#8221; said Tawang resident Lobsang Chopel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the ruddy shelduck is known to breed in the high altitude lakes in Ladakh and Sikkim, a survey team comprising Aishwarya Maheshwari, Kripaljyoti Mazumdar and Pema Wang of the WWF (western Arunachal landscape) reported the sighting of a breeding pair of ruddy shelduck with seven chicks at<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsomgo Ama wetland, located at an altitude of 4,535 mtrs, in the Thembang Bapu Community Conserved Area in West Kameng district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This sighting could indicate a potential new breeding site, claimed a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Prem Chetry ] TAWANG, 5 Feb: Flocks of ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) were spotted at Sangetser Lake and PT Tso Lake in Tawang district on Monday. The ruddy shelduck is a migratory bird which winters in the Indian subcontinent and breeds in southeastern Europe and central Asia. It is known for its orange-brown body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}