Seasonal bird’s diversity of gautala reserve forest, Maharashtra, India
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Seasonal bird’s diversity of gautala reserve forest, Maharashtra, India
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Birds are the most numerous, varied, and mobile living organisms on the planet. Birds are among the most effective environmental monitors. Birds have played a unique role in the protection, growth, and restoration of natural environments, and as a result, their significance and importance in the preservation of clean and healthy environments are of the highest order. Birds are a natural part of the Indian Subcontinent’s habitation, which is teeming with winged residents. The diversity of bird populations is an important indicator of an ecosystem’s overall well-being. The study is being carried out to compile a preliminary checklist of the bird community in the Gautala reserve forest. A total of 71 bird species from 38 families were identified. There were 62 resident birds, 7 winter migratory birds, one breeding migratory bird, and one non-resident bird. One species classified as Near Threatened (NT- Decreasing), such as the Alexandrine parakeet, the surviving 35 species are LC- Stable, 11 are LC- Unknown, 15 are LC- Increasing, and 10 are LC- Decreasing as per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The Passeriformes order was the highest abundance with 37 species in the Gautala Reserve Forest. In the present study, A bird survey was conducted in Gautala Reserve Forest selected 15 different Spots during the rainy, winter, and summer seasons and a checklist was created (2017-2018) to determine the status of the bird population in a region This paper discusses seasonal Variations in Birds counts in addition to the statistical analysis methods.
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