Indonesian

Abstract

Endah GP, Partasasmita R. 2015. Bird diversity in Bandung City Park, West Java. Pros Sem Nas Masy Biodiv Indon 1: 1289- 1294. Urban green open space is an important part of a city. The existence of urban green open space is required in controlling and maintaining the environmental quality of the city. One form of green open space in the city is a city park. The city park has an ecological function, namely as a place to live wildlife such as birds. The condition of bird habitats in a city park vary because it has a different condition of vegetation, this has led to the species of birds spread in a various different city park. Research on the diversity of bird species in some parks in Bandung was conducted in July-September 2014. The method used in this research was line transect method (Bibby et al. 1980). The results showed that in Bandung city park found 28 species of birds from 18 families. Shannon-Wiener diversity index value across study sites amounted to 2.48. Insectivorous guild category was dominated across study site by nine species of birds while the fewest guild category was granivorous, insectivorous-frugivorous-nectarivorous, and nectarivorous by one species of bird. The highest bird species similarity index values between study sites were between Ganesha Park and Lansia Park that amounted to 0.87, while the lowest was Tegalega Park and Pramuka Park that amounted to 0.42. The highest spread of bird species ws Passer montanus (91%), Pycnonotus aurigaster (100%), and Megalaima haemacephala (91%). The high-frequency value indicated the presence of these three species of birds were almost evenly across study sites. Based on T test (Magurran 2004), Tegalega Parks and Maluku Parks showed significant differences diversity of bird species with other parks, while the City Hall, Lansia, Kandaga, Cilaki, Ganesha, and Pramuka parks did not show significant differences.