Habit and habitual status with relative diversity study of avifauna of Jaipurhat district of Bangladesh
2020
Al Amin | Kamrul Hasan | Shafi Mahmud | Maria Akter | Shabnam Sabiha | Sumaiya Arabi
This investigation was carried out to observe the migration status and the feeding guild of the avian fauna including the relative diversity of Jaipurhat District of Bangladesh. Data were collected from November 2017 to October 2019. During the study period, 89 avian species were recorded that belong to 32 families under 11 orders among which 8 (8.99%) species were common winter visitors, 3 (3.37%) were common summer visitors, 8 (8.99%) were resident migratory, 1 (1.12%) were rare resident and 69 (77.53%) were resident birds. Among the birds observed in the study area during the study period the highest number of birds was found to be insectivorous (41.57%), then the carnivorous (8.99%), then omnivorous, piscivorous and picio carnivorous (7.87%), then insecto frugivorous (6.67%), then frugivorous (5.62%), then frugio graminivorous (4.49%), then nectarivorous (3.39%), then graminivorous and molluscio carnivorous (2.25%) and insecto carnivorous (1.12%). The hight avian diversity (69.662%) was observed in Mithapur which is human inhabited area with crop lands and a lot of fruit trees and the lowest (32.584%) diversity was in Shree Rampur Bill and Kastogari Bill which has large water bodies. [ J Adv Biotechnol Exp Ther 2020; 3(3.000): 204-215]
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