author(s)
Rishita Jain and Manoj Kumar

abstract
Suitable habitat is the foremost requirement of birds to reside in a particular landscape. The present studies aim to observe the effect of landscape on population of Common Myna. Birds were surveyed by using point count method and line transect method in three locations i.e. agricultural landscape (location 1), residential landscape (location 2) and landscape supporting crowded areas having human presence (location 3). Avifaunal diversity was studied and a total of 12 species were observed. These bird species recorded belongs to 7 orders and 11 families. The most dominant order was Passeriformes (41.63%), followed by Columbiformes (16.6%). Based on the status of birds, 91.6% of the bird spices observed were resident and 8.4% were resident migrant. Species richness was observed to be 11, 7 and 6 at location 1, 2 and 3 respectively. A total of 19 nest were recorded during the study. Common Myna was found associated with House Crow, Ring Dove, Rose Ringed Parakeet, Common Babbler, Blue Rock Pigeon at all locations i.e. location-1,2 and 3, Red Vented Bulbul, White Breasted Kingfisher and Asian Koel were not found associated with Common Myna at any of the three locations i.e. location 1,2 and 3. The population of Common Myna was maximum at location 3 (38.72%) followed by location 1 (27.36%) and location 3 (24.74%) proving that the feeding opportunities were more in landscape having higher human presence due to their anthropogenic activities which resulted in higher annual abundance of Common Myna and highest number of nest were observed at location 1 which is having least human disturbance.