CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (Monticola saxitilis) is considered an autumn passage migrant bird species in Pakistan and India.

Detailed explanation-2: -The team has named the bird they found Lisu Wren Babbler, after the Lisu community of the state. Their findings were recently published by Indian BIRDS, a peer-reviewed journal of south Asian ornithology.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Himalayan Forest Thrush is only the fourth new bird species described from India since our independence in 1947.

Detailed explanation-4: -Researchers have described a bird species new to science found on a remote island off the southern tip of the Americas. The subantarctic rayadito (Aphrastura subantarctica), a small brown bird with a large beak, is related to a group of forest-dwelling birds, the rayaditos.

Detailed explanation-5: -The blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius) is a species of chat. This thrush-like Old World flycatcher was formerly placed in the family Turdidae. It breeds in southern Europe, northwest Africa, and from Central Asia to northern China and Malaysia.