Status of Aquatic Avifaunal Diversity in Around Datia City

Avifauna is an important constituent as well as an important link in the food chain of any ecosystem. Birds have been considered as useful biological indicators because they are ecologically versatile an inhabit all kinds of habitats (Sivaperuman and Jayson, 2006). In Indian wetlands 318 species of birds are recorded out of which 193 species are fully dependent on wetlands (Vijayan, 1986). Datia is the small rural district in Madhya Pradesh about 13 small and big ponds found in datia city and two dam angoori reservoir and ramsagar were also present. During the research work, total 41 species of water birds founded belonging to 13 family 8 order were recorded from local water bodies of datia city 16 species were residential 13 is species were residential / migrants and 12 species were migrating the majority of the aquatic Birds observed during the investigation were the residential /migrate and residential. total 32 species for less concern out of 41 species and the most aquatic bird are insectivorous with 17 species and followed by piscivores with 13 species were investigated. In the investigation order Pelecaniformes were dominate with 8 species and followed by order Anseriformes and Charadriiformes with 6 species and order Gruiformes and Passeriformes were present with 5 species,