Examples of using Darters in English and their translations into Hindi
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Many Darters still lived there.
However, it is also placed in its own family(Protoplotidae) and might bea basal member of the Sulae and/or close to the common ancestor of cormorants and darters.
The maximum possible lifespan of darters seems to be about sixteen years.
The darters have completely webbed feet, and their legs are short and set far back on the body.
To dry their feathers after diving, darters move to a safe location and spread their wings.
Darters feed mainly on mid-sized fish; far more rarely, they eat other aquatic vertebrates and large invertebrates of comparable size.
Like cormorants but unlike other birds, darters use their hyoid bone to stretch the gular sac in display.
Extinct"darters" from Mauritius and Australia known only from bones were described as Anhinga nana("Mauritian darter") and Anhinga parva.
The best season to visit the sanctuary is between June and August as it is the breeding season of wetland birdslike white ibis, herons, egrets, Indian darters and kingfishers.
On dry land, darters walk with a high-stepped gait, wings often spread for balance, just like pelicans do.
That they often balance with their outstretchedwings during walking is probably an autapomorphy of darters, necessitated by their being plumper than the other Sulae.
There are four living species of darters recognized, all in the genus Anhinga, although the Old World ones were often lumped together as subspecies of A. melanogaster.
Many Westerners feel so confident about their own well-being that they forget their security and instead focus on the concerns of those they perceive as weak and exploited, whether human(e.g., indigenous peoples or the poor)or animals(whales and snail darters).
While the darters' lack of many display behaviors is shared with gannets(and that of a few with cormorants), these are all symplesiomorphies that are absent in frigatebirds, tropicbirds and pelicans also.
The male raised-wing display seems to be a synapomorphy of the Sulae;like almost all cormorants and shags but unlike almost all gannets and boobies, darters keep their wrists bent as they lift the wings in display, but their alternating wing-waving, which they also show before take-off, is unique.
Predators of darters are mainly large carnivorous birds, including passerines like the Australian raven(Corvus coronoides) and house crow(Corvus splendens), and birds of prey such as marsh harriers(Circus aeruginosus complex) or Pallas's fish eagle Haliaeetus leucoryphus.
They may form a superspecies with regard to the more distinct American darter: Anhinga or American darter, Anhinga anhinga Oriental darter or Indian darter, Anhinga melanogaster African darter, Anhinga rufa Australasian darter or Australian darter, Anhinga novaehollandiae Extinct" darters" from Mauritius and Australia known only from bones were described as Anhinga nana(" Mauritian darter") and Anhinga parva.
Whether the pointing display of mates is another synapomorphy of darters and cormorants that was dropped again in some of the latter, or whether it evolved independently in darters and those cormorants that do it, is not clear.
Indian darter(Anlinga rufa) Species in fered to decreasing all over the country.
The darter is a carnivore.
But many would-be predators know better than to try to catch a darter.
The Indian cormorant, Oriental darter, grey heron, and lesser whistling duck are among the common water birds of the Senanayake reservoir.
Darter eggs are edible and considered delicious by some;
Mrs. Darter: And how's your mother?
Darter eggs and nestlings are also collected in a few places to raise the young.
Darter eggs are edible and considered delicious by some; they are locally collected by humans as food.