Vadodara: Even as a multilevel apartment began to replace the vintage bungalow, Pratapgggunj, one of the oldest residential areas in Vadodara has not lost its diversity when it comes to winged visitors.
A study conducted jointly by a botanist and Zoology University M has revealed the presence of 54 species of 32 families who used 28 species of trees spread across almost 29.4 hectares in this residential area.
This study aims to highlight the diversity of pratappgjun birds, which have low disorders and high trees, and act as good bird protection.
Avian Survey Engineering and Science Survey Engineering / Residents Survey Citizens are used for data collection for paper titled ‘Conservation of the Importance of Trees as Urban Green Spaces: A Bird Case Study in the Pratapgggunj Housing Area, Vadodara’ Written by Tanaya Ambadkar, Geeta Padate from the MSU Department of Zoology and Prof.
Arun Arya, a former Hods of Botany.
“Birds are known to effectively indicate habitat quality in a region.
Most of the population species are observed successfully breed in the area,” the study said.
Two species of migration – Rosy Starling and Walltail White – observed in a good amount regardless of two other species of Alexandrine Parakeet and black-headed ibis, which is classified as ‘almost threatened’ in the red list of IUCN.
When compared with the IUCN list which shows the trend of the global population of bird species, the Pratapgggunj area has seven species of birds with a downward trend, nine with increasing trends, 28 has a stable global population and ten species whose trends are unknown.
Three oil palm squirrels, gray Langur, Indian Gray Luwak, Indian Fox Flying and Asian home mice were usually found mammals in the area.
And reptiles like – Oriental Garden Lizard, Cobra Spectacled, Indian mouse snake has also been recorded.
There are 28 species of trees including 16 pieces of fruit in the Pratapgggunj which shares its limits on two sides with the University M campus and on the one hand with a public park of my prize that extends green habitat for birds.
The most remarkable feature of this area is a stretch consisting of 75 Ashoka trees (AsopalaV), all of which are over six decades.
“The old residential area still has several large trees along the internal road which makes the green area and habitat good for birds,” added research.