Spatial Variation in Avifaunal Diversity from Various Green Spaces of Indore City, Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Indore city harbours a wide variety of birds. The objective of the present study was to assess the avian diversity and its spatial variation at four different locations of Indore city viz. Meghdoot Garden, Nehru Park, Lalbagh and Pipliyapala Regional Park. A yearly survey of avian fauna was carried out from January to December 2018 by adopting line transect and point count method.A total of 58 bird species belonging to 13 order and 34 families were recorded during the present study. The highest number of avian fauna was recorded in Pipliyapala Regional Park (58), followed by Lalbagh (41), then Meghdoot Garden(39) and the least

Observation of Birds Diversity at Vindhyachal Forest Reserve Khargone District (M.P.)

“…Rawal et al (2016) reported total fifteen bird species of avian fauna at Kunda reservoir and these belonged to six orders and the order Passeriformes was dominant with four species. Bird diversity of fifty eight species was recorded at Indore city and the order Passeriformes was dominant with thirty five bird species (Gaur et al, 2019). The recorded bird species number was sixty bird species, belonging to fifteen different orders.…”