Avifauna Composition at Tenghilan Community Forest: A Preliminary Assessment

• Main Authors: Logananthini Solayappan, Lim, Wing-Shen, Andy Russel Mojiol
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: e-VIBS, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources 2021
• Subjects: QK1-989 Botany; QL671-699 Birds
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34072/1/Avifauna%20Composition%20at%20Tenghilan%20Community%20Forest.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34072/2/Avifauna%20Composition%20at%20Tenghilan%20Community%20Forest1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34072/; http://tost.unise.org/pdfs/vol8/no4/ToST-8x4x648-653xOA.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

The avian community plays an important role in maintaining the ecosystem at Tenghilan Community Forest in equilibrium, and yet the existing condition of the local avifaun a community has yet been investigated by the researchers at this moment. Henceforth, a preliminary mist-net survey was conducted for 6 days, to determine the species composition of avifauna presented at three different forest trails in this state land for st. A total of 48 individuals and 22 species of avian belonged to 13 different families were recorded in this research. The detected avian individuals were comprised mainly of the insectivorous (n=29 or 60.4 %) species and followed by the omnivorous (n=7 or 14.6 %) species, and finally both the carnivorous species and frugivorous species (n=6 or 12.5 % respectively; Χ2 63=144.0, p<0.001). There were no significant differences in the diversity richness and distribution evenness of avian species between the three selected forest trails (p>0.05), therefore indicating that the local avifauna species were rich in diversity (H’ > 1.5) and evenly distributed (1 - D>0.5) across the Tenghilan Community Forest. However, further study should be conducted at thi s state land forest by covering a wider sampling area, also a longer sampling period in future.