Avifaunal diversity study of Garhwal-Himalayan Range


The Avifaunal diversity study of Garhwal-Himalayan Range was conducted by Nature Mates Nature Club in May month of year 2022 The Avifaunal diversity study of Garhwal-Himalayan Range was conducted by Lina Chatterjee and the identification and data analysis was by Nature Mates-Nature Club team.
This dataset covers the areas of Rudraprayag, Chamoli districts under Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary and Bageshwar. The study area covered varied habitats like Oak-Rhododendron forest, Rhododendron rich Subalpine forest, Alpine grassland-Bugyal exposed rock, Subtropical Pine forest, Temperate Oak forest, Maple forest, Subalpine Oak forest, Fir forest, Birch-Rhododendron forest and, Cultivation patches. 
All the species are identified up to the species level. A total of 103 species of birds are recorded belonging to 76 genera, 38 families and 12 orders.


Contacts
1. Name: Arjan Basu Roy
Position: Secretary
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: basuroyarjan@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9872-3562
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
2. Name: Lina Chatterjee
Position: Research Associate
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: lina.linachatterjee@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5626-5046
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
3. Name: Tarak Samanta
Position: Research Associate
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: taraksamanta995@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6809-0549
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
4. Name: Sumana Besra
Position: Intern
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email:sumanabesra1999@gmail.com 
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7222-2946 
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org


5. Name: Nivedita Sengupta
Position: Research Associate
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: niveditasngpta.ns@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1085-7385
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/
6. Name: Vijay Barve
Position: Research Advisor
Organization: Nature Mates-Nature Club
Address: 6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata-700032
Email: vijay.barve@gmail.com
Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567
Home page: http://www.naturematesindia.org/




Geographic coverage:
Location/study area: Tunganath, Rudraprayag, Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand; Chopta, Rudraprayag, Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand; Mandal, Chamoli, Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand; Siroli, Chamoli, Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand; Makku, Rudraprayag, Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand; Deoria Tal, Rudraprayag, Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand; Bantoli, Bageshwar, Uttarakhand.
Coordinates: Tunganath(30.48848N-79.216716E), Chopta(30.346434N-79.048386E), Mandal(30.4375431N-79.3043476E), Siroli(29.6871N-78.66135E), Makku(30.4823N-79.1337E), Deoria Tal(30.522222N-79.127778E), Bantoli(29.895814N-79.619322E).


Temporal coverage
Begin: 2022-05-03
End: 2022-05-18


Method
Method step: Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography
Sampling: Random sampling
Description: All the observations were recorded during the trekking route where every part of the areas have a equal chances of being chosen, through which we studied the distribution of avian species found in the garhwal-himalaya region
Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.
Bibliography:
Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing. 
 
eBird. (2022). eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org


IUCN. (2022). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org




Besides this readme txt file the dataset includes images (photographs) and comma-delimited text (csv) file