Anuja A. Desale

• Biodiversity Journal, 7 (3): 359-364

  Rao Birendra Singh, Anuja A. Desale, Swapnil J. Keni & Ravindra G. Gupta
  Notes on the Avifauna in and around Devkhop lake of Palghar, India

  ABSTRACT
  In the present paper, the Authors show the results of their research carried out on birds of a peculiar and interesting natural habitat. The Devkhop Lake is located at the Palghar-Manor highway about 5 km away from Palghar city (India). It is a perennial lake and it is a very good site for the water birds including the migratory ones. It also provides a rich diet to birds. We have surveyed the avian fauna of this area from May 2015 to February 2016 and we recorded total 31 species of birds belonging to 8 orders and 20 families. Passeriformes and Ciconiiformes are the dominating orders in our observations which constituted 60% of total birds observed in this period. The families Corvidae, Anatidae, Ardeidae were found dominant with four, four and three species, respectively. In this paper qualitative enumeration of avifauna is discussed and a comparison is made with other studies on birds found in similar habitats.

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