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A survey of the avifauna of district Kargil was carried out using a combination of Line Transect method and Point Transect method to record the avifaunal diversity and their feeding guilds. The bird census was carried out from April 2010 to April 2012. The study area lies between 340 15' to 340 47' 30'' North latitudes and 75? 45' to 76? 3' East longitudes. The area constitutes a part of the Trans-Himalayas in Jammu And Kashmir State. The area is comprised of high rocky mountains with snow bound peaks and arid desert devoid of natural vegetation. The altitudinal range of the area varies between 2430m to 4192m above msl. The study revealed 102 species of birds. Six major feeding categories were considered viz. insectivorous, carnivorous, grainivorous, omnivorous, frugivorous and herbivorous. The highest number of bird species was observed to utilize more than one feeding guild followed by insectivorous, carnivorous, grainivorous and omnivorous bird species. Feeding guild of 1 species i.e., Black-crowned Night Hereon was not recorded during the study.
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Ali, S. and Ripley, S. D. (ed.) 1983. Handbook of Birds of India and Pakistan, Compact Edition, Oxford University Press, Bombay.
Grewal, B., Harvey, B. and Pfister, O. (ed.) 2002. A photographic guide of the Birds of India, Periplus Edition (HK) Ltd., Singapore.
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Holmes, P. R., 1986. The avifauna of the Suru River Valley, Ladakh. Forktail, 2: 21-41.
Inskipp, T., Lindsey, N. and Duckworth, W., 1996. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of the Oriental Region. Oriental Bird Club, Sandy, UK.
Karr, J.R., Robinson, S.K., Blake, J.G. and Berregard, R.O., 1990. The bird communities of four neotropical forest In. A. Gentry (ed.), Four Neotropical Forest, Yale University Press, New Haven, C.T. pp: 237-269.
Mallon, D. P., 1987. The winter birds of Ladakh. Forktail, 3: 27-41.
Namgail, T., 2005. Winter birds of the Gya-Miru Wildlife Sanctuary, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Indian Birds, 1(2): 26-28.
Pfister, O., 2001. Birds recorded during visits to Ladakh, India from 1994 to 1997. Forktail, 17: 81-90
Pfister, O. (ed.) 2004. Birds and Mammals of Ladakh, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
Sangha, H. and Naoroji, R., 2005. Birds recorded during seven expeditions to Ladakh from 1997 to 2003. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., 102(3): 290-304.
Wani, A. A., Sahi, D. N. and Kumar, S., 2008. Feeding ecology of avifauna of Doda, Jammu and Kashmir. J. The Bioscan, 3(4): 477-478.