IJRBAT, Special Issue (2), Vol-V, July 2017 ISSN No. 2347-517X (Online) Avian Fauna in Tu.sar Tahsil of Bhandara District (MS) Salwe Arti A and Jadhao Madhu2ar F Department of Zoology, S.N. Mor College, Tumsar Dist: Bhandara (MS)-441401 Email: aas/oology)gmail.com and mfjadhao)gmail.com ABSTRACT Random sur,ey was carried during 2ctober 016 to March 013 in order to study the di,ersity of a,ian fauna in Tumsar tahsil of Bhandara district of Easte rn Maharashtra (India). total of 104 specie s of birds we re obse r,ed belonging 16 order and 4 families. 2rder Passeriforme s was the most dominant consisting of 0 familie s. Family Muscicapidae of this orde r was found to be dominant with 4 species. 2ut of 104 species of birds re corded in the pre sent study, one species was obser,ed as Endangered, two under Not Threatened and remaining 101 specie s were recorde d under Ceast Concern category. Twenty one specie s ( 0.14 %) were recorded as Migratory and remaining 88 bird species (34.80 %) were reporte d as Residential. %,C1ORDS- .,ian Fauna, Endangered Species, Migratory, Re sidential, Threatene d and Tumsar tahsil. INTRODUCTION along with wide range climatic condition that .,ian fauna is one of the most important pro,ide di,erse range of habitat, abundant ,erity components of ecosystem and being sensiti,e to of food, suitable resting place a,ailable en,ironmental change the birds act as 9ey throughout year for migratory as well as indicator for assessing the status of ecosystem residential bird, no information was a,ailable on health (2lechnows9i, 004). The di,ersity and species di,ersity of birds in Tumsar tahsil. richness of a,ian species in a community are Therefore, the present scientific sur,ey has been totally depending on that habitat. The a,ian carried out to study a,ian fauna of Tumsar tahsil habitat is roughly di,ided into forest, scrub, grass of Bhandara district in Maharashtra (India). land, fresh water bodies, sea shore and many MAT,RIA-S AND M,THODS species re1uire a miDed type of habitat. Study area: Birds are of great economic importance to Tumsar is a city and municipal council in the human society. They play an important role Bhandara district in Eastern Bidarbha of in controlling population of different insects and Maharashtra state. It co,ers an area of 80 .50 9m pests. They play the role of sca,engers and s1uare. It is located at 1 1S T 50U N, pollinating agents and also help in dispersal of 34S 44T 50U E in Eastern Maharashtra. It has an seeds of different ,egetations. They are helpful a,erage ele,ation of 3 meters (84 feet). The and help to pro,ide rich food for man9ind and are weather is ,ery well balanced in all seasons 9nown to man since ages (Nason, 144 ). Birds are eDcluding summer, temperatures in summers is bipedal, egg laying warm blooded ,ertebrates with as high as 48 degrees Celsius and in winters as more than 4000 li,ing species across the world. cool as 1 degrees Celsius. Tumsar is famous for The Indian subcontinent contains about 1800 large production of rice and therefore fondly species all o,er 18% of the world birds (Grimmett 9nown as VRice Bowl’ of the state. Carge area of et al, 1448) and Maharashtra houses 48.63% this tahsil has been surrounded by dense forest, (more than 500 species) of total Indian a,ifauna. ri,er (Bainganga), natural water bodies (many The estimation of local densities of a,ifauna helps la9es) and rice fields along with wide range to understand the abundance of ,arious species climatic conditions that pro,ide di,erse range of of other organisms. .,ifaunal di,ersity all o,er the habitat for birds. world has been decreasing due to the destruction Methods (Data Collections): of natural habitat and ,arious anthropogenic In order to study the a,ian di,ersity of the birds, acti,ities. a general sur,ey was carried out for siD months at There are many studies that ha,e already ,arious locations (forests, water bodies, rice fields been conducted on bird di,ersity in different and in and around the Tumsar city) in the Tumsar habitat in Maharashtra such as Tadoba .ndheri tahsil of Bhandara district from 2ctober 016 to Tiger Reser,e Chandrapur (Mahabal, 006), March 013. Birds were obser,ed twice a day at Chaprala wild life sanctuary of district Gadchoroli morning time and e,ening time for three-four (Cha,han et al., 01 ), Pohara-Mal9hed reser,e hours. The ,isits were made during early forest, .mra,ati (Eadat9ar and Aasambe, 00 ) mornings and late e,ening, since acti,ity of birds and in and around Nanded city (Aul9arni et al., is at its pea9 during this time. binocular 005). (2lympus) was used for obser,ation of the birds .lthough Tumsar is surrounded by dense and images were captured with the help of a good forest, ri,er, natural water bodies and rice fields 1uality digital Ni9on camera without disturbing SHRI SHIVAJI SCIENCE COLLEGE, NAGPUR 689 ICRTS-2017 IJRBAT, Special Issue (2), Vol-V, July 2017 ISSN No. 2347-517X (Online) their natural acti,ities. For identification up to mangro,es of Iran cost of Mumbai, Maharashtra species le,el colour plates of .li Ripey (1446), and and Chil9e ( 01 ) recorded 58 species of birds Grimmett et al. ( 001) were used. .fter belonging to 4 order and 4 families from confirmation of identity of species, status and Bamanwada Ca9e of Rajura, district Chandrapur. chec9list were prepared. 2f the recorded bird species (104), 65 species R,SU-TS AND DISCUSSION were obser,ed as common, 1 species as In the present study, a total of 104 species of bird occasional and 18 species were recorded as rare belonging to 16 order and 4 families were species. M ophonus blighi was recorded as recorded during sur,ey period of siD months endangered, Prinia burnesii and Psittacula (2ctober 016 to March 013) in Tumsar tahsil of eupatria were recorded under not threaten and Bhandara district of Eastern Maharashtra. 2rder remaining bird species come under least concern Passeriformes was found to be the most dominant category. order containing 0 families and 53 species The a,ifaunal di,ersity of Tumsar tahsil followed by 2rder Charadriiformes (5 families), comprises of 88 (34.80 %) species residents and Coraciiformes (8 families), Gruiformes ( families) 1( 0.14 %) migrants (winter and summer and remaining 1 order represented by single migrants) (Fig. ). Migratory bird species recorded family each. 2f the 104 recorded bird species, the during present sur,ey are Blac9-Einged Stilt, highest number of species belonged to family Eood Sandpiper, Purple 0eron, Green Bee-eater, Muscicapidae (4 species), followed by .rdeidae .sian Aoel, Common Indian Aastrel, Common and Sturnidae (6 species each), 0irudinidae (5 Crane, Blue throat, Thrush Nightingale, species), .ccipitridae, Columbidae, Cuculidae, Common Stone Chat, Chestnut- Tailed Starling, Phasianidae, Cisticolidae, Estrildidae, Striated Swallow, Sand Martin, Bran Swallow, Ceiothrichidae, and Motacillidae (4 species each), Ehite Eagtail, Eestern Lellow Eagtail, Richards Charadriidae, .lcedinidae, Nectariniidae, and Pipit, Red-bac9ed Shri9e, Blyths Reed Earbler, Psittacidae (8 species each), Rallidae, .laudidae, Eurasian Golden 2riole and Great Cormorant. Campephagidae, Cor,idae, Dicruridae, Caniidae, Eanjari et al. ( 018) identified 158 birds’ species Passeridae and Phalacrocoracidae ( species belonging to 46 families, of which 1 4 were each) whereas remaining 18 families were found resident, 1 local migrant and 13 were migrants to be represented by single bird species each. (The where as .ggarwal et al. ( 015) obser,ed 106 common and scientific names, order, family, and species belonging 5 families during a period of status and family wise abundance of bird species nine months from the Indian Institute of Forest ha,e been gi,en in Table 1 and Fig. 1). Pawar Management (IIFM), Bhopal, which 3 species ( 011) recorded 56 species of birds from 11 were recorded as winter ,isitor. orders, 4 families, and 46 genera from the Table-1 -ist of bird species recorded in Tu.sar Tahsil of Bhandara District Order Fa.ily Scientific Na.e Co..on Statu Conservatio Fre3uency Na.e s n Status 0Abundanc e 1 1 Accipitridae 1 Accipiter soloensis 0orsfie lds R CC 2 Accipitrifor.e Goshaw9 s 2 Accipiter badius Shi9ra R CC C 3 Elanus caeruleus Blac9 R CC C Shoulder Aite 4 Milvus migrans Blac9 Aite R CC C 2 2 Bucerotidae 5 Oc ceros birostris Indian Grey R CC 2 Bucerotifor.e 0orn bill s 3 3 Charadriidae D Charadrius dubius Cittle R CC 2 Charadriifor. Ringed e Plo,er E Vanellus Lellow- R CC C malarbaricus wattled Capwing 8 Vanellus indicus Re d-wattled R CC C Capwing 4 Jacanidae 5 Metopidius indicus Bron/e - R CC 2 Einged Jacana 5 10 Himantopus Blac9- M CC Ra Recurvirostridae himantopus Einged Stilt SHRI SHIVAJI SCIENCE COLLEGE, NAGPUR 690 ICRTS-2017 IJRBAT, Special Issue (2), Vol-V, July 2017 ISSN No. 2347-517X (Online) D 6lareolidae 11 Cursorius Indian R CC Ra coromandelicus courser E Scolopacidae 12 Tringa glareola Eood M CC Ra Sandpiper 4 8 Ardeidae 13 Ardeola gra ii Indian Pond R CC C Ciciniior.es 0e ron 14 Ardea purpurea Purple EM CC 2 0e ron 15 Ardea sumatrana Great Billed R CC Ra 0e ron 1D Bubulcus ibis Cattle Egret R CC C 1E Egretta garzetta Cittle Egret R CC C 18 Egretta intermedia Me dium R CC 2 Egret 5 5 Colu.bidae 15 Columba livia Indian Roc9 R CC C Colu.bifor.e Pigeon s 20 Streptopelia Indian Ring R CC C decaocto Do,e 21 Streptopelia Spotted R CC C chinensis Do,e 22 Streptopelia Caughing R CC C senegalensis Do,e D 10 Alcedinidae 23 Alcedo atthis Common R CC 2 Coracifor.es Aingfishe r 24 Cer le rudis Pie d R CC Ra Aingfishe r 25 Halc on sm mensis