The summer avian community structure in yunju mountain,Jiangxi Province

In Autumn of 2012,a survey on the avian community was conducted in Yunju Mountain of Yongxiu County,Jiangxi Province.The results showed that there were 41 species totally,which belonged to5 orders,i,e.21 families.Of these birds,Passeriformes and Ciconiiformes dominated in the proportions values of individual and species numbers.Pycnonotus sinensis was the most predominant in the whole avian community.The residents owned both the highest individual and species nos,respectively accounted to 94.4%and 88.0%of all birds.The whole avian species diversity and evenness indexes were 2.93 and 0.79 in the investigated area,respectively.The coniferous forest bird community had the highest value of species diversity(2.63),while the shrub community owned highest evenness(0.87)in all 5different habitats.In total,the level of productivity of habitat largely determined the distribution characteristics of birds in different habitats.Meanwhile,the habitat similarity determined the similar degree of the composition of avian communities in Yunju Mountain.