Bird composition in relation to management practices of orchards in Ludhiana district
Loading...
Date
2016
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
Abstract
The present study was carried out to observe bird composition in relation to
management practices of orchards in Fruit Research Farm, Punjab Agricultural University
campus, village Birmi and village Baranhara in Ludhiana District from March 2015 to
February 2016. A total of 52, 44, 38, 49, 31and 30 bird species had been noted in the
transects I, II, III and IV of Fruit Research Farm, PAU, transect V of orchard at village Birmi
and transect VI of orchard at village Baranhara respectively. Order wise Passeriformes and
feeding habits wise omnivorous were most dominant in all the said transects throughout the
study period. In transect IV management practices (bird manual scaring) were performed and
guava crop fruit damage was found to be estimated 5.5%. Data was taken on ber trees
protected with manual scaring and netting. Bird damage was 11.08% in manual scaring area
and nil on the netted trees. Guava fruit damage was estimated 42.50% and 23.50% at fruit
ripening stage (without management practices) in transect V of village Birmi and transect VI
of village Baranhara respectively. In the comparison of guava crop at different developmental
stages, 22 species were in transect IV, 19 species in transect V and 25 bird species in transect
VI were recorded. The implementation of management practices (netting, manual scaring)
helped in reducing the bird damage in guava and ber crop. The present study suggested that
mixed fruit orchard seemed to provide food to bird species of different tropic levels from
frugivores to carnivores.
Description
Keywords
null