Avian biodiversity in Bharthana and Chakar Nagar Tahseel of district Etawah U.P. India

Abstract

There were seven surveys conducted for the purpose of identification of avian diversity in Bharthana and Chakar Nager Tahseel of District Etawah in U.P. These ornithological surveys were carried out of three years from March 2017 to March 2021 for assessing the distribution, status, abundance of local, resident, migratory bird species in study area. Covering area is about 225 km2. In these surveys there were a total bird species 85 recorded and belonging to 72 genera, 37 families and over 15 orders were noticed, out of these 85 bird species diversity shows that 69.41% resident, 24.70% local migrant, 1.17% migrant, 4.70% summer visitors were distributed. No winter visitor species was observed. The habitat preference is wetland, terrestrial, terrestrial forest terrestrial aerial and terrestrial riverine. According to IUCN red list category shows that NT, VU, EN, LC and T were recorded in surrounding target area of study. The abundance 62.52% common, 28.25% un common and 8.25% rare bird species were found.