STUDIES ON POPULATION DENSITY OF HOUSE SPARROW (Passer domesticus) AT VILLAGE SAJWANI, DISTRICT BARWANI,MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA

Himanshu Mayriya; Dinesh Verma

Volume : X, Issue : V, May - 2020

STUDIES ON POPULATION DENSITY OF HOUSE SPARROW (Passer domesticus) AT VILLAGE SAJWANI, DISTRICT BARWANI,MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA

Himanshu Mayriya, Dinesh Verma

Abstract :

House sparrow (Passer domesticus) belongs to the order Passeriformes and the family Passeridae. The bird is closely related with human habitations. In Barwani town (22.0363° N, 74.9033° E), due to awareness related to this bird, led to the growth of the population. Barwani Town is surrounded by small villages which are close and connected by Road. On this, semi urban areas, Household food waste, local restaurants, Dhabas and agriculture spoilage, are providing a good feeding habitat to the bird. This particular study was done in Village Sajwani, District Barwani for Two months, from September to October. The village is situated 5 KM far from the Barwani Town, the gap in between is full of Agricultural fields and Temporary Kaccha Houses which is the most preferable nest site of the bird. The objective of the paper is to find a pre winter data of the bird’s population, to observe their feeding preferences, to find nest sites after Monsoon. The study was conducted for two months i.e. from September to October. Field trips were made twice a day (Morning 7 AM–9AM and Evening 5PM–6PM). Line transects and Point count Methods are used to collect the data. Total 577 birds were counted out of which 323 were female and 254 were male. Distribution percentage was 19 % near residential area, 48 % near restaurants and 33% near agricultural mud houses. The House sparrow is an agricultural pest, to eradicate the bird, different methods were used and this killed a huge portion of the bird’s population, later we realized that even the bird is a pest but a part of our eco–system and the loss of the bird will give future ecological disturbances. There are many organizations which are working in the direction to save the House sparrow, this data will be a small part of it.