Abstract
Birds are very valuable indicators of species richness and endemic patterns in a specified ecosystem, which eventually help the scientist to measure the environmental degradation. The aim of present study was to know human knowledge and attitude toward urban birds in Faisalabad city, Pakistan. The study conducted in four consecutive months: November 2019 to February 2020. Population of birds was noted from eight residential towns of Faisalabad city, data were collected through questionnaire. Faisalabad has a reasonably large population of birds and present data show that, there is a significant difference between favorite bird of residential areas and institutions. The pigeon received the most likeness in bird population among residential area residents, while the myna received the least. The most popular bird in Faisalabad institutions was the sparrow, while the least popular bird was the common myna. Bird adaptation percentage of residential areas and institutional areas of Faisalabad was the highest for parrot and sparrow respectively. People in residential areas and institutions, on the other hand, adapted least to common myna. It is concluded that people of the study area like birds and offered food and high population of birds are present in study area.
Highlights
Birds are very valuable indicators of species richness (Khan et al, 2021) and endemic patterns in a specified ecosystem, which eventually help the scientist to measure the environmental degradation (Gregory et al, 2003; Sinha et al, 2019; Ali et al, 2020)
It is native to Eurasia but due to inherited traits, it dominated and successfully exploited urban areas under diverse climatic conditions, which have resulted at some places in repelling indigenous competitor avifauna (De Laet and Summers-Smith, 2007; MacGregor-Fors et al, 2017)
There are increasing evidences that house sparrow populations are declining throughout the world both in rural and urban areas, stable populations have been reported in some places (Balmori and Hallberg, 2007; De Laet and Summers-Smith, 2007; Chamberlain et al, 2007; Ghosh et al, 2010; Seress et al, 2012; Khera et al, 2010; Kler et al, 2015)
Summary
Birds are very valuable indicators of species richness (Khan et al, 2021) and endemic patterns in a specified ecosystem, which eventually help the scientist to measure the environmental degradation (Gregory et al, 2003; Sinha et al, 2019; Ali et al, 2020). There are increasing evidences that house sparrow populations are declining throughout the world both in rural and urban areas, stable populations have been reported in some places (Balmori and Hallberg, 2007; De Laet and Summers-Smith, 2007; Chamberlain et al, 2007; Ghosh et al, 2010; Seress et al, 2012; Khera et al, 2010; Kler et al, 2015). The well-noted alters have present in UK, where 60 percent decline documented in the population of P. domesticus from 1994 to 2004 (Raven et al, 2005). This decline was widespread enough to classify the above mentioned species as being of special concern in the UK, and of conservation concern in Europe (De Laet and Summers-Smith, 2007; Murgui and Macias, 2010)
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