Summer avian community structure in tiesiling of anfu county,jangxi province

Survey on the avian summer community was conducted in Tiesiling area of Anfu County,Jiangxi Province from June to July of 2012,.The results showed that there were 507 bird individuals totally,which belonged to 10 orders,25 families or 52 species.Among these birds,Passeriformes and Ciconiiformes dominated in the proportions of individuals and species numbers.Especially,Passe montanus and Ardeola bacchus were the most predominant in the whole avian community.The proportions of both individuals and species numbers were highest for the residents,which were 69% and 81%,respectively.The indices of the whole avian species diversity and evenness approached to 3.27 and 0.83 in the investigated area,respectively.The broad-leaved evergreen forests community owned the highest values of species diversity(2.79),while the reservoir community owned highest evenness(0.94) in all 5 different habitats.In addition,the values of individuals and species numbers showed the tendency of decline with the increase of the elevation.Overall,the level of productivity of habitat largely determined the distribution characteristics of birds in different habitats.On the other hand,the similarity of the habitat determined the similarity degree of the composition of avian communities.