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Population fluctuation of some harmful wild birds in different habitats at Assiut governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Plant Pathology and Plant Protection

Abstract

A field experiment was carried out in order to study the population fluctuations of harmful wild birds at four different habitats, i.e., Nearby animal's farm, field crops, honeybee apiary and trees. This study was carried out in planted areas at farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Al–Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt during December 2018 till November 2020. The study proved that there are four species of wild birds it is present throughout the year in the study area. The four species were house sparrow, Passer domusticus niloticus, hooded crow, Corvus corone sardonius, palm dove, Streptopilia senegalensis egyptica and rock dove, Columba livia schimpari. The study showed that the highest population of house sparrow was recorded in fields nearby trees, followed by fields nearby honeybee apiary and fields nearby field crops. Then the lowest population was in fields nearby animal's farm. Also, the population of hooded crow was highest in fields nearby animal's farm and trees, followed by fields nearby honeybee apiary. Then the lowest numbers were recorded in fields nearby field crops. As for the palm dove the highest population were in fields nearby trees, followed by fields nearby honeybee apiary, followed by fields nearby animal's farm. And the lowest population recorded in fields nearby field crops. Finally, the rock dove bird recorded the highest population in fields nearby animal's farm, followed by fields nearby honeybee apiary and fields nearby trees. As for the lowest population of rock dove were in fields nearby field crops.

DOI

10.21608/aasj.2021.93632.1081

Keywords

population, Fluctuation, house sparrow, hooded crow, nearby trees

Authors

First Name

M.

Last Name

Mosallm

MiddleName

A. S.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Zoology and Nematology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

marwansaber13@gmail.com

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First Name

M.

Last Name

Omar

MiddleName

M. A.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Zoology and Nematology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

m_mobarak75@yahoo.com

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First Name

M.

Last Name

El-Danasory

MiddleName

A. M.

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Zoology and Nematology, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

dr_ma_danasory@azhar.edu.eg

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First Name

R.

Last Name

El-Sharkawy

MiddleName

M. I.

Affiliation

Agricultural Botany Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

rafeekelsharkawy14@gmail.com

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Volume

4

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

32440

Issue Date

2021-08-01

Receive Date

2021-06-03

Publish Date

2021-08-01

Page Start

71

Page End

79

Print ISSN

2535-1680

Online ISSN

2535-1699

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https://aasj.journals.ekb.eg/article_205805.html

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https://aasj.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=205805

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7

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Research article

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764

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Publication Title

Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal

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https://aasj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Population fluctuation of some harmful wild birds in different habitats at Assiut governorate, Egypt

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Created At

22 Jan 2023