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10 PPT (Bird Sanctuaries in India)

- Birds are warm-blooded animals with forelimbs modified into wings and hind limbs adapted for walking, perching, and swimming. They lack teeth and have a beak and oil gland. - Examples of flightless birds include the cassowary, ostrich, emu, dodo, and kiwi. Important bird research organizations include the Central Avian Research Institute in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural Sciences in Coimbatore. - World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on the second Saturday of May and October while World Sparrow Day is March 20 each year.

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10 PPT (Bird Sanctuaries in India)

- Birds are warm-blooded animals with forelimbs modified into wings and hind limbs adapted for walking, perching, and swimming. They lack teeth and have a beak and oil gland. - Examples of flightless birds include the cassowary, ostrich, emu, dodo, and kiwi. Important bird research organizations include the Central Avian Research Institute in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural Sciences in Coimbatore. - World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on the second Saturday of May and October while World Sparrow Day is March 20 each year.

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Characteristics of Aves

• Birds are warm-blooded animals.


• Their forelimbs are modified into wings.
• The hind limbs are adapted for walking, perching, and swimming.
• There is no skin gland except the oil gland, Aves are always uricotelic.
• The upper and lower jaws are modified into a beak. They have no teeth.
• The endoskeleton is bony with long hollow bones filled with air cavities.
• The voice is produced by a special organ, the syrinx. They are Oviparous
• The heart is four-chambered. The RBCs are nucleated, oval, and biconvex.
• Flightless birds – Cassowary, Ostrich, Emu, Dodo, Kiwi
• Central Avian Research Institute, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
• Dr. Salim Ali - "Birdman of India"
• Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural Sciences (SACON), Coimbatore

• World Migratory Bird Day 2019 – 2nd Saturday of May and October

• World Sparrow Day is celebrated on 20 March every year


This bird sanctuary comprises of islands in the River Cauvery,
which one is it?

Ranganthitto
Kumarakom
Manjira
Pranhita
Which of the following bird sanctuary is not a Ramsar site?

Keoladeo
Kolleru
Chilika
Sultanpur
Nalsarovar
“Flamingo colony” is reputed as the largest flamingo colony in the
world. Where is this?

Khavda
Kolleru
Rollapaddu
Chillika
This sanctuary is famous for critically endangered
Great Indian Bustard, which one is it?

Saraiya
Rollapadu
Keoladev
Mayani
In 1985, this bird sanctuary was accepted as a world heritage site, which one is
it?

Kolleru
Pulicat
Chilika
Keoladeo
The first man made bird sanctuary in India?

Nawabganj
Okhla
Keoladeo
Vedanthangal
What is the name of the earliest known bird?

Anapsida
Archaeopteryx
Sauropterygia
Neopilina
A larva called "cavaborus" abounds in this lake and eliminates bacteria in the
water, thus contributing to exceptional purity of water. The larvae are found in
this Ramsar site?

Bhoj wetland
Deepor Beel
Sasthamkotta lake
Gulf of Mannar
57% of mangroves in India are found where?

East coast
West coast
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Lakshadweep
Gulf of Mannar is a major habitat for the endangered which animal?

Dolphin
Gharial
Estuarine Crocodile
Dugong
Which is not true about Bhitarkanika?

Famous for Gharial Crocodile


Mass nesting of Olive Ridley turtles
Very rich in mangroves
It is a Ramsar Site
Name the state which does not have a RAMSAR site?

Maharashtra
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
None of these
Which is a water storage reservoir created in 1975 on the Beas River in
the low foothills of the Himalayas?

Pong Dam Lake


Chandra Taal
Renuka Lake
Nangal Lake
Name the state which does not have a RAMSAR site?

Maharashtra
Gujarat
Tamil Nadu
None of these

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