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Studies on avian diversity of banda university of agriculture and technology campus, Banda, Uttar pradesh, India

2018; MedCrave Group; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15406/ijawb.2018.03.00082

2574-9862

Kaushal Pratap Singh,

Agricultural pest management studies

We investigated avian diversity at the Banda University of Agriculture and Technology (BUAT), Banda, Uttar Pradesh through line transect and point count methods.Opportunistic observations were made (August, 2017 to March, 2018) and checklist of birds was prepared.BUAT falls in the semi-arid biogeographic zone of India and represents mosaic of tropical thorn forest, open scrub, agriculture farms and urbanized type of habitats.We recorded 61 bird species belonging to 15 orders and 31 families covering an area of about 383.64 hectares of the campus.Passeriformes was recorded as most dominant order with 27 species.Seven groups (n=61) were formed according to their feeding habits: insectivores birds (36%) were the most dominating group followed by omnivores (19%), frugivores (16%), granivores (13%), carnivores (12%), piscivores (2%) and nectarivores (2%).Out of 61 bird species,58 species were resident, two were winter migratory (painted stork) and one was breeding migratory (jacobin kukoo).Our study indicated that Indian robin, laughing dove, rock pigeon, black drongo, green bee-eater, black kite, red and silver munia were amongst the most common species and UP State Bird sarus crane nesting was also noted during the study period.Our study revealed more vulnerable white rumped vulture and winter migrant painted stork in the BUAT campus.This study is first of a kind attempt to prepare a checklist of birds at the BUAT campus and recorded a representative sample size of the BUAT avian diversity.