Bird composition in relation to management practices of orchards in Ludhiana district

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dc.contributor.advisorKler, Tejdeep Kaur
dc.contributor.authorSukhpreet Kaur
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-15T07:37:16Z
dc.date.available2017-06-15T07:37:16Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810020453
dc.keywordsBird species richness, Bird damage, Mixed fruit orcharden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages98en_US
dc.publisherPunjab Agricultural University, Ludhianaen_US
dc.research.problemBird composition in relation to management practices of orchards in Ludhiana districten_US
dc.subZoologyen_US
dc.subjectnullen_US
dc.themeBird compositionen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleBird composition in relation to management practices of orchards in Ludhiana districten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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