Pied Cuckoo | UPSC
HEADLINES:
Nano technology enables scientists to study migrations of Pied Cuckoo
WHY IN NEWS:
The project is the first to study the species, which is closely linked to the arrival of the south west monsoon in India
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3:Conservation of Biodiversity : Flora and Fauna
LEARNING:
For PRELIMS you have to understand the migration pattern , Stay and take a note of IUCN Status .
For MAINS do you think lot of birds migratory pattern has to be studied closely ? What conclusions can we drive out from such studies ? Well we have one here now . Let us dive in !
ISSUE:
A new project by the Wildlife Institute of India and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing has used nano technology to track the enigmatic Pied Cuckoo.JOINT EFFORT BY
- The project is a joint effort by the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), which comes under the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO.
OBSERVATIONS
- There are basically three subspecies of the Pied Cuckoo of which one is resident in Africa while another is resident in South India.
PIED CUCKOO
- The Pied Cuckoo is famous in North Indian folklore as ‘chatak’, a bird that quenches its thirst only with raindrops.
- From Southern Africa, it comes to the Himalayan foothills stretching from Jammu to Assam to breed every year.
- It is also a brood parasite in that it does not make its own nest and instead lays its egg in the nest of other birds, particularly the Jungle Babbler.
- The birds come to the same localities every year.
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PIED CUCKOO PROJECT
- Two cuckoos were named Megh, meaning cloud and Chatak.
- This collaborative effort is a first of its kind and through this an online web-based geospatial dashboard will be developed for near-real-time monitoring of trends and patterns in movement of Pied Cuckoo .
PIED CUCKOO MIGRATION STUDY
The two cuckoos, Megh and Chatak are expected to stay in the Doon valley till the end of the monsoon season.
- MIGRATION : They will start their southbound migration in late September.
- FUNDING : The Pied Cuckoo migration study is part of a larger project — Indian Bioresource Information portal (IBIN) funded by the Department of Biotechnology.
IASbhai WINDUP:
The IBIN project consists of various biodiversity and environmental parameters which will help in assessing the likely impacts of projected climate change on the potential distribution of Pied Cuckoo .
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1 comment
pied cuckooshirke is difft species and pied cuckoo or jacobin cuckoo status is least concerned.
u may update it.
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